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“Parable of the Sower” Opera Powerfully Tells a Story of Climate Change, Displacement, Faith, and Survival

Throughout the past year, Reagon has been leading a community-based project—Parable Path Maine—based on the themes of her opera: the effects of environmental ruin and inequality, and the ideas of ...
WGBH

Toshi Reagon finds an opera for the ages in the book ‘Parable of the Sower’

When composer and multi-instrumentalist Toshi Reagon first received a copy of Octavia E. Butler’s “Parable of the Sower,” she was already familiar with the late author’s work. But something about it ...
NPR

Octavia Butler wrote a 'Parable' that became a prophecy — now it's also an opera

Octavia Butler's sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower was published 30 years ago, in 1993. This Afrofuturistic book about a dystopian America set in our time now seems positively prophetic — and a new ...
The New York Times

Apocalypse Nowish: Singing the Prophetic Warnings of Octavia Butler

Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon adapted Butler’s dystopian “Parable of the Sower.” Their opera makes its New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City. By Salamishah Tillet In Octavia ...