Latin Jazz Meets Opera tells the story of Christopher Sánchez’s life through music. This album is the sound of a life lived between cultures. Caribbean music has always evolved through migration. In the twentieth century, Latin rhythms and American jazz collided in New York and gave rise to Latin Jazz, a genre born from diaspora and shaped by memory, reinvention, and ambition. Sánchez takes the next step in that evolution. He brings Latin Jazz into opera. Latin Jazz Meets Opera reanimates memory through contemporary production, Afro-Caribbean rhythm, cinematic jazz harmony, and operatic storytelling. Journey through beloved works from the American, Latin American and European opera songbooks, re-interpreted in the Caribbean-American imagination.
