Birmingham’s Elias Hendricks III to Perform Selections in “Opera Unveiled”

By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times Birmingham’s Elias Hendricks III will be one of the featured tenors during next week’s Opera Unveiled: A Concert of Greatest Hits, which will include the Opera Birmingham Chorus, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and several other artists. The show will be held at the Dorothy Jemison Day Theater at the Alabama School of Fine Arts on Friday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, April 28, at 2:30 p.m. “It’s been almost 10 years since I’ve been able to come back and sing solo,” Hendricks told the Birmingham Times in a recent interview. “[Birmingham] is really one of my favorites places to perform because I get to perform in front of my family and friends that have known me since I was a child. I’ve spent over a decade traveling around different countries … performing music for everyone else so these performances [next week] are very special to me.” Hendricks’s talents have taken him across the globe where he’s performed in the title role of Simba in Disney’s “The Lion King,” toured Europe with his one-man soul show “Aint Too Proud to Beg,” and, as the lead singer of The Temptations in “Motown: the...