Alex Ross on “opera queens” and the history of gay them opera, as well as the recent proliferatn of gay operas, like “Angels Ameri” and “Pl’s Case.”
Contents:
- ROSS GAY
- THE DECLE OF OPERA QUEENS AND THE RISE OF GAY OPERA
- ROSS GAY: POETRY SUMMARY
- ROSS GAY
- ROSS GAY: POETRY ANALYSIS
- ROSS GAY: POETRY SYMBOLS, ALLEGORY AND MOTIFS
ROSS GAY
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THE DECLE OF OPERA QUEENS AND THE RISE OF GAY OPERA
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Sce 2010, the crop of gay-oriented works has clud—flute trill, please—Je Martín’s “Before Night Falls” and Charl Wuoren’s “Brokeback Mounta, ” stori faiar om film; Theodore Morrison’s “Osr, ” on the life of Wil; Terence Blanchard’s “Champn, ” about the gay Ain-Amerin boxer Ee Griffh; two perd operas by Gregory Spears, “Pl’s Case” and “Fellow Travelers”; Mark Simpson’s “Pleasure, ” set at a gay night club; Kev March’s “L Feluett, ” based on Michel Marc Bouchard’s play “Lili”; Andrea Srtazzi’s “Edward II, ” about the sndalo Brish monarch; Ricky Ian Gordon’s “27, ” portrayg the partnership of Gert Ste and Alice B. They certaly pensate for the long s when gay people.
(One notable velopment: not all of the above operas are by gay. the gay-opera wave, if they are so first gay character opera is ually said to be the Counts.
ROSS GAY: POETRY SUMMARY
homosexualy before that. ” The Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen, the journal found by the German gay activist Magn.
”In the twentieth century, the field of gay opera was domated by. Venice, ” Brten chose subjects wh an oblique or obv gay slant.
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him an uneasy place the pantheon of gay posers. opera, “The Knot Garn, ” whose ensemble st clus Dov, a gay whe. Virgil Thomson on down, were gay.
told a draft board that he was homosexual, and, a 1946 review of an.
ROSS GAY: POETRY ANALYSIS
Harrison was drawn to the material not simply bee of s gay.
ROSS GAY: POETRY SYMBOLS, ALLEGORY AND MOTIFS
A send wave of gay operas began the neteen-neti, the wake. drama to emerge om morn gay life, seemed evable.