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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
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.” * locale gay opera *
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“displaced eroticism, ” when gay men and lbians had to exprs. Beyoncé displac Caballé so, operas on gay them have proliferated. 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.
(One notable velopment: not all of the above operas are by gay.
ZACHARY JAM, AN OUT GAY OPERA ARTIST YOU NEED TO KNOW
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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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” 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.
GLAD TO BE GAY
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A NEW OPERA ILLUMAT THE 'LAVENR SRE,' A LTLE-EXPLORED ERA IN GAY HISTORY
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