Silent Stories: A Grain of Light

Jeanine de Bique

In public and private spaces where their voices are silenced, composers and librettists find ways to persist and resist. Soprano Jeanine De Bique, who opens La Monnaie's opera season in the female title role of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, captures and decodes their journeys in a recital that celebrates the power of expression.

Evoking the painful history of slavery as well as her contemporary perspective on Black identity, the Trinidadian soprano moves between Caribbean traditionals, African American spirituals, gospel songs by H.T. Burleigh and the poetry of Toni Morrison set to music by André Previn.