This exclusive release is a live recording from the critically acclaimed world premiere production of Blind Injustice produced by Cincinnati Opera with a score by Scott Davenport Richards, libretto by David Cote, and stage direction/dramaturgy by Robin Guarino. The opera explores the true stories of six innocent people who were tried, convicted, imprisoned, then ultimately freed by the Ohio Innocence Project (OIP). A collaboration with the OIP and Cincinnati’s Young Professionals Choral Collective (YPCC), the opera is based on casework by the OIP and the book Blind Injustice by University of Cincinnati law professor and OIP Director Mark Godsey, as well as interviews with the six exonerees: Rickey Jackson, Nancy Smith, Clarence Elkins, and the East Cleveland 3—Derrick Wheatt, Laurese Glover, and Eugene Johnson. The recording features the original cast, the Cincinnati Opera Chorus, members of YPCC, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra led by Cincinnati Pops Conductor John Morris Russell.

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