To mark the occasion, the San Francisco Opera is throwing a little party for him Thursday that will include a number of singers ('my kiddies') whose careers he helped nurture, including Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, Patricia Racette, René Pape and Dolora Zajick. Now this pioneering impresario is about to 'pack it in,' as he says in the audio feature above. The first of Adams’s many operas, Nixon in China broke new ground with its effective use of a contemporary event as the subject of an opera. A new opera from Bright Sheng, Dream of the Red Chamber, debuts this fall, and Tuesday Gockley announced Girls of the Golden West, an Adams opera premiering in November 2017. Nixon in China, opera in three acts by John Adams (with an English libretto by Alice Goodman), which premiered at the Houston Grand Opera in 1987. As general director he racked up more world premieres - Philip Glass' Civil War drama Appomattox and Christopher Theofanidis' 9/11 story Heart of a Soldier. Gockley continued along the same path after moving to the San Francisco Opera in 2006. During his tenure in Houston, Gockley presented 35 world premieres, including John Adams' Nixon in China, Stewart Wallace's Harvey Milk, Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place, Mark Adamo's Little Women and three operas by Carlisle Floyd. Over the next 30 years, Gockley transformed the company into a hothouse for new and revived American opera. After two years, at age 27, he moved up to general director. Tags arts & culture black history Black History Matters Black Wall Street classical music Daniel Roumain discrimination Eddie Robinson Greenwood District Greenwood District RestorationDeath In A Promised Land The Tulsa Race Riot Of 1921 i see u national news News 88.In 1970, a young business school grad - and failed opera singer - named David Gockley landed a job as business manager of the Houston Grand Opera. This episode is an encore of the June 3rd, 2021 original broadcast to commemorate the anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre. Acclaimed composer talks candidly about the opera industry with the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot as a backdrop.

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