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JULI CAAR, YOUNG AND GAY: A GROUNDBREAKG 1971 OPERA GETS REVIVED FOR A NEW ERA
When the Enunters mic seri Pasana asked for an opera, Harrison was at a loss for a subject until his partner, Bill Colvig, proposed 1969 that he explore a gay subject. The rult was what may well have been the first overtly male gay opera history, plete wh a love affair between the teenage Juli Caar, as an emissary om Rome, and Nies, the kg of distant Bhynia, on the south shore of the Black Sea.
It even had a gay y, picted wh opera was a ttimony to Harrison and Colvig’s then-new love, speculat Yuval Sharon, the Los Angel Philharmonic’s artist-llaborator, stage director of “Young Caar” and lear of the performance group the Indtry. In 1987, the Portland Gay Men’s Chos Oregon missned a new versn (wh assistance om another beloved Californian, the patron Betty Freeman).
In honour of LGBTQIA+ history month, Ancient History alumni Ollie Burns tak a closer look at the social, polil, and cultural implitns of homosexualy ancient Rome.