Love and Blood

The official coloring book of a historic opera.

Love and Blood is the official coloring and activity book for LALOVAVI, the first Afrofuturistic opera. Music by Kevin Day, libretto by Tifara Brown, sung in English and Tut. It premiered July 9 and 11, 2026 at Music Hall with Cincinnati Opera's Black Opera Project, and this book puts that world in your hands.

Jide' Fresh built every page from the opera's universe: its characters and its symbols. Color it and keep it. This is a piece of opera history you get to finish yourself.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• COLOR THE WORLD Digitally illustrated coloring pages drawn from the world of LALOVAVI
• GO DEEPER Activities and reflections that open up the opera's themes of love and liberation
• THE STORY Background on the opera and the Black Opera Project that brought it to the stage
• A KEEPSAKE A companion piece to a first in opera history, made to be kept long after the last page is colored

Paperback. For opera lovers, Afrofuturists, and anyone who was in the room or wishes they were.