Lexicon Classics is proud to present BLACK PIERROT, a GRAMMY nominated landmark album showcasing baritone Sidney Outlaw in two seminal works: Brittney “B.E.” Boykin’s revolutionary song cycle 26 Ways of Looking at a Black Man, and William Grant Still’s poignant Songs of Separation, which includes texts by Arna Bontemps, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Philippe Thoby Marcelin.Listen on Apple Music, Spotify, and more.
Lauded by The New York Times as a “terrific singer” with a “deep, rich timbre,” Sidney Outlaw, baritone, is an “opera powerhouse” who has delighted audiences in the U.S. and abroad with his “weighty and forthright” sound (San Francisco Chronicle) since 2010, when he exploded onto the international scene as the winner of the Grand Prize at the Concurso Internacional de Canto Montserrat Caballé.A sought-after performer, Mr. Outlaw was called to jump in as the title role in Don Giovanni at Opera Philadelphia with 8 days notice, to a smashing success of a production. Sidney is equally at home on the operatic stage as the symphonic and concert stages.Sidney appeared in the 2024-2025 season in recital several times with close collaborator, renowned pianist Warren Jones, at Manhattan School of Music, Brooklyn Art Song Society, and University of North Florida. Additionally, he débuts with the California Symphony in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, with Bozeman Symphony Orchestra in Mozart’s Requiem, and returns to Jacksonville Symphony for their Messiah, following a triumphant debut with the company in 2023. His recording of Brahms’ Zwei Gesange Op. 91, was released by Lexicon Classics in 2024. On the opera stage, he returns to Pensacola Opera for one of his signature roles, Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, and reprises his Don Giovanni with Greensboro Opera.
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