Jubilee: A Folk Opera

Name: Jubilee: A Folk Opera
Start: 2026-06-14T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-06-14T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Jubilee: A Folk Opera

June 14, 2026 @ 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Overview

Jackson State University and Yale University have entered into a collaboration to develop the folk opera Jubilee as part of the Yale Alliance for Scholarship, Collaboration, Engagement, Networking and Development (ASCEND) Initiative. The story of Margaret Walker’s real-life grandmother and great-grandmother as they lived from slavery to freedom, the novel Jubilee launched the genre of neo-slave narratives when it was published in 1966.

Please join us in the F.D. Hall Music Center for a free, premiere concert reading of Jubilee: A Folk Opera, with a reception to follow. The performance is part of the HBCU Opera and Musical Theater Summer Festival hosted by OPERA/SOUTH.