FIREBRAND poet Mikey Smith is the focus of Reggae Opera Mikey, composed by noted Jamaican musician Peter Ashbourne.

The opera is scheduled to debut next June, but snippets of it will be shown at the Jamaica School of Music, Edna Manley College on October 8.

It will bring the curtain down on a series of activities by MUSIC Unites Jamaica Foundation, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, located in St Andrew.
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The series opens September 30 and comprises special concerts, workshops and master classes. 'Mikey', however, should get a lot of attention.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra came to the cool hills of Mandeville and gave a performance of the highest standard that will long be remembered by the people who travelled from near and far to witness it.

The event, organised by the National Youth Orchestra of Jamaica, was held at the Northern Caribbean University campus on Thursday and was the first of two concerts in Jamaica by the London-based orchestra.
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Classical music aficionados came out in their numbers to witness this historic occasion as it was the first time the world-renowned orchestra was performing in the Caribbean.