![]() ![]() ![]() Soprano Karen Slack is Mother, the bass-baritone Nicholas Newton is Father, a character not included in the book. Composer Joel Thompson is best known for his work, Seven Last Words of the Unarmed librettist Andrea Davis Pinkney is an award-winning author whose book A Poem for Peter is about The Snowy Day’s protagonist.Īs the central character, Raven McMillon’s Peter is a career-making performance, flawless in singing and enacting the delight of a young boy’s first experience playing in the snow. The Houston world premiere was created during the pandemic. The book won the 1963 Caldecott Medal, and it broke a persistent color barrier: Peter was the first Black boy to be the main character of a mainstream children’s book, said to be the most-checked-out book in the history of the New York Public Library. Karen Slack and Nicholas Newton are the Mother and Father in A Snowy Day, between them is Raven McMillon as Peter in the world premiere by Houston Grand Opera | Credit: Lynn Lane PhotographyĮzra Jack Keats wrote and illustrated The Snowy Day, the story of a little boy named Peter who is finally allowed to venture into the snow alone. ![]()
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