Soprano Kyaunnee Richardson will be singing with he IBOC New York on March 14, 2025 at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York City.

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Join us for an intimate portrait-event celebrating an exceptional woman and championing female voices and resilience through a conversation with Nina Smart, an exploration of her book, and an exclusive presentation of scenes from the upcoming opera. With special guests Sharon Fisher, composer João MacDowell, soprano Kyaunnee Richardson and mezzo soprano Rachel Deatherage.

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“Wild Flower: The True Story of a Romanian Girl in Africa”, recounts the breathtaking life of African-Romanian woman who, after escaping Ceaușescu’s terrible dictatorship, and the harmful traditional practice of female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone found her call, as activist and spokesperson, in the first against FGM.

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To RSVP, > International Brazilian Opera Company New York City

Photography by Lea Gallardo, 2024