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JULI CAAR, YOUNG AND GAY: A GROUNDBREAKG 1971 OPERA GETS REVIVED FOR A NEW ERA
Was Juli Caar gay? 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).
An nt of the future dictator had married Gai Mari, a self-ma man (nov homo) who had forced his way up to the summ by his ary abily and had ma the momento novatn of recg his armi om the disposssed peasants. It was moured that durg his first vis to the East he had had homosexual relatns wh Kg Nies of Bhynia.