Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A celebrated bass-baritone known for his versatile performances in both classical and contemporary music, Davóne Tines has reframed an understanding of opera across generations. His vocation as a performer has led to a nomadic lifestyle, traveling up to 300 days per year. Yearning for a sense of place while on the road, Tines, along with artist Hugh Hayden and performer Zack Winokur, channels the formative site of his personal and musical development: his grandparents’ home in Orlean, Virginia, designed by Alma Lee Gibbs Tines. A slice of Virginia country life set on a rocking plinth, “Living Room: Orlean, Virginia” embodies the complexity of Tines’s memories of homes and music making while commenting on the tension between comfort and precarity felt across the US today.
Experience “Living Room: Orlean, Virginia” in real life—plan a visit to “Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial," on view at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum through August 2025.
A celebrated bass-baritone known for his versatile performances in both classical and contemporary music, Davóne Tines has reframed an understanding of opera across generations. His vocation as a performer has led to a nomadic lifestyle, traveling up to 300 days per year. Yearning for a sense of place while on the road, Tines, along with artist Hugh Hayden and performer Zack Winokur, channels the formative site of his personal and musical development: his grandparents’ home in Orlean, Virginia, designed by Alma Lee Gibbs Tines. A slice of Virginia country life set on a rocking plinth, “Living Room: Orlean, Virginia” embodies the complexity of Tines’s memories of homes and music making while commenting on the tension between comfort and precarity felt across the US today.
Experience “Living Room: Orlean, Virginia” in real life—plan a visit to “Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial," on view at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum through August 2025.
