Cynthia Erivo Joins Washington National Opera Gala, Aretha Franklin Withdraws
Washington National Opera WNO today announces that Cynthia Erivo, the Tony-winning star of Broadway's The Color Purple, will now perform at the 2017 WNO Opera Gala, Trading Voices, celebrating WNO Board Chairman Jacqueline Badger Mars, on Saturday, June 3, 2017, in the Kennedy Center Opera House.