Black Lucy & The bard
A ballet with original music from Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi, based on a book of poetry, Lucy Negro Redux, by Caroline Randall Williams that reads Shakespeare’s “dark lady” sonnets as written to a black woman. Commissioned by Nashville Ballet, it premiered in 2019 and was recorded for PBS’s Great Performances in 2022, retitled Black Lucy & the Bard.