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UCLAUCLA Herb Alpert School of Music's Opera | Black | Queer symposium brought scholars and artists together to examine the intersection of Black and queer identities in opera through research, dialogue, and performance. Supported by a Chancellor's Arts Initiative grant, it featured programming co-presented with CAP UCLA. 📸: Bailey Holiver, Birka Chen Image 1: A performer sits at a table operating electronic music equipment surrounded by colorful wires. Large, glowing yellow-green circular projections fill the dark background and foreground. Text in the upper right reads: “Photo: Bailey Holiver.” Image 2: Three seated musicians perform onstage. A trombonist plays behind two flutists, with microphones, music stands, and a brightly illuminated projection in the background. Text reads: “Photo: Bailey Holiver.” Image 3: The illuminated marquee of The Nimoy theater against a blue evening sky reads: “Yvette Janine Jackson with Radio Opera Workshop. Today at 8 pm.” Text in the upper right reads: “Photo: Bailey Holiver.” Image 4: Three seated musicians perform on a dark stage as a large blue wave projection stretches across the background and their bodies. A trombonist and two flutists play behind microphones and music stands. Text reads: “Photo: Bailey Holiver.” Image 5: Three people sit onstage holding microphones beneath a large projection reading “Center for the Art of Performance UCLA.” The person on the left speaks and gestures while the other two look toward him. Text in the upper right reads: “Photo: Birka Chen.” Image 6: A performer with two hair buns sits at a table, looking down while adjusting a modular electronic music device covered in colorful cables. A music stand and additional equipment sit nearby against a black background. Text reads: “Photo: Bailey Holiver.”
On the profile · Oct 14, 2026