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:
- THE DECLE OF OPERA QUEENS AND THE RISE OF GAY OPERA
- WH GAY UPLE AS STARS, MEXIN TELENOVELA SET TO MAKE HISTORY
- THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
THE DECLE OF OPERA QUEENS AND THE RISE OF GAY OPERA
* operas with gay characters *
The opera is seen as the first mastream gay-themed opera. Disillned by the Cuban Revolutn and persecuted by the Castro regime as a dissint wrer and homosexual, Arenas suffered as a polil prisoner forced to smuggle his mancripts abroad for publitn.
” The opera, which had s world premiere at the Santa Fe Opera 2013, was a vehicle for David Daniels, who is also openly gay and who later brought the work to Opera Philalphia a revised versn. Ross, based on the events surroundg the ath of Matthew Shepard, a young, gay llege stunt who was beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die.
WH GAY UPLE AS STARS, MEXIN TELENOVELA SET TO MAKE HISTORY
A Mexin soap opera that buts on Sunday is set to make televisn history as the untry's first telenovela to feature a gay uple as the leadg characters. * operas with gay characters *
The work, wh libretto by Greg Pierce based on Thomas Mallon’s novel of the same name, chronicl a doomed gay romance McCarthy-era Washgton, D.
THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
The opera is set 1912 and 1957, when homosexualy was still a taboo.