Events

Esperanza Arts Center presents a special live-streamed staged world premiere in partnership with Astral Artists featuring Brazilian forró music, opera, dance, and storytelling traditions, as part of Voces 2021. Building on the sound of Forrópera, co-created by Chrystal E. Williams (mezzo- soprano) and Felipe Hostins (accordion), Forrópera Experiência combines Brazilian Forró music, Opera, Dance, and […]

The Chrystal E. Williams Scholarship was founded in 2004 because it was realized that there was a need to help students wishing to pursue a career in the performing arts. It is my hope and dream that in the future young performers will not have to concern themselves with funding for school but will only […]

Husband and Wife Duo, Forrópera, share their genre bending musical ingenuity and joy with surrounding communities.

Husband and Wife Duo, Forrópera, share their genre bending musical ingenuity and joy with surrounding communities

The Chrystal E. Williams Scholarship was founded in 2004 because it was realized that there was a need to help students wishing to pursue a career in the performing arts. It is my hope and dream that in the future young performers will not have to concern themselves with funding for school but will only […]