A world-class voice on the Dingman-Delaware stage

MILFORD, PA — Kindred Spirits Arts Programs will present the mezzo-soprano Lori Brown-Mirabal at Dingman-Delaware Middle School on November 14 at 3:00 p.m. Accompanied by Grammy nominee Allison Brewster Franzetti, she’ll sing music from the worlds of opera, spirituals and Broadway.

Brown-Mirabal is known to movie buffs as the opera singer in “The Secret Lives of Dentists” (2003) and as a solo artist in the PBS Great Performance documentary, “Aida’s Brothers and Sisters.” But she has spent much of her time performing live, appearing with Placido Domingo, the late Luciano Pavarotti and Cab Calloway, and other stars of opera, jazz and Broadway.

After seeing Brown-Mirabal portray the goddess Diana in “Iphigenie en Aulide,” The New York Times’s Bernard Holland wrote, “Lori Brown-Mirabal’s moment as Diana warmed the stage as no one else managed to do.” When she performed the title role in Bizet’s “Carmen” in France, Le Telegramme’s critic said, “Throughout the presentation the audience could not keep their eyes from Lori Brown-Mirabal.” The conductor himself said, “This sort of Carmen has not been seen in a long time, and it will not be reproduced for a long time to come.”

The program will include popular arias like “The Habanera” from “Carmen” and “My Man’s Gone Now” from “Porgy and Bess,” and show tunes like “I Could Have Danced All Night” from “My Fair Lady.” She’ll also sing spirituals such as “Go Down Moses” and “Come Down Angels, Trouble the Water.”

Tickets cost $10 for adults; children under 12 are admitted free. For more information visit

kindredspiritsprograms.org.