A New Opera Illumat The 'Lavenr Sre,' A Ltle-Explored Era In Gay History : Deceptive Cance : NPR

Contents:

• THE DECLE OF OPERA QUEENS AND THE RISE OF GAY OPERA
• ZACHARY JAM, AN OUT GAY OPERA ARTIST YOU NEED TO KNOW
• WHY DO MANY GAY MEN LOVE OPERA?
• “CASTA DIVA”: THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY OPERA GUI WH TWO OPERETTAS AND SOME HIDN PORN
• PL GAY
• GLAD TO BE GAY
• A NEW OPERA ILLUMAT THE 'LAVENR SRE,' A LTLE-EXPLORED ERA IN GAY HISTORY

THE DECLE OF OPERA QUEENS AND THE RISE OF GAY OPERA

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ZACHARY JAM, AN OUT GAY OPERA ARTIST YOU NEED TO KNOW

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.

WHY DO MANY GAY MEN LOVE OPERA?

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“CASTA DIVA”: THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY OPERA GUI WH TWO OPERETTAS AND SOME HIDN PORN

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PL GAY

told a draft board that he was homosexual, and, a 1946 review of an. Harrison was drawn to the material not simply bee of s gay. A send wave of gay operas began the neteen-neti, the wake.

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”Read more: 15 great classil posers who also happened to be gay. He’s known for his acclaimed terpretatn of Verdi’s intifi as gay, and recently released Vanished, an LGBTQ+ story about “longg, heartbreak, and searchg for love” wh John Holiday (above).

GLAD TO BE GAY

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. 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.

A NEW OPERA ILLUMAT THE 'LAVENR SRE,' A LTLE-EXPLORED ERA IN GAY HISTORY

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.