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.
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
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.” * 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. 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 opera is set 1912 and 1957, when homosexualy was still a taboo. The opera ma s world premiere 2016 and marked the first time a gay love story had been staged Montreal. ” But most the LGBT muny also disparaged the film as ignorg Turg’s gay si and not beg open about .
WH GAY UPLE AS STARS, MEXIN TELENOVELA SET TO MAKE HISTORY
* operas with gay characters *
The opera tak liberti wh the story (as shows multiple aths) and also speaks openly about Turg’s homosexualy. “And was sry for a moment, but I quickly realised that the price wasn’t worth payg for my relatnship.”Read more: 15 great classil posers who also happened to be gay.
He’s known for his acclaimed terpretatn of Verdi’s Otello.Thomas intifi as gay, and recently released Vanished, an LGBTQ+ story about “longg, heartbreak, and searchg for love” wh John Holiday (above). Breanna Sclairé is a transgenr soprano who has had an eclectic reer sgg a diverse range of genr and settgs – om the opera stage, to the Walt Disney Concert Hall wh the Los Angel Gay Men’s Chos. It’s up to the stage director, but a se n and should be ma for Orte and Pyla Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tri (1779) beg gay.
No overtly gay character shows up opera until the lbian Counts Gchwz Berg’s rivetgly dramatic Lulu (1937). The clud one of the most signifint figur of the entire gay movement, San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official Amerin history. San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk (1930-1978), the first openly gay elected public official Ameri and subject of an opera named for him, posed by Stewart Wallace.
THE 10 BT GAY MILS OF ALL TIME
A number of important lerary works have been the basis of other operas centered on gay characters. They all prent emotnally plex gay characters whose relatnships are, unfortunately, doomed to fail ( some s, tragilly so), eher bee of their own tortured feelgs, their dysfunctnal fai, or simply bee of the reprsn imposed by the society surroundg them.
Composers and librettists are only gradually figurg out that opera n offer LGBTQ-oriented plots that prent gay people whose relatnships n provi joy and uplift for the dience. We need more of those for gay characters, who proved long ago that opera has a place for them.
He is also a two time Grammy Nomee and the first Openly-Gay Mic Director of the Metropolan Opera.