Terence Blanchard’s six-time Grammy Award–winning composer’s operatic retelling of the dramatic story of gay boxer Emile Griffith arrives in New York. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green stars as the closeted young hatmaker-turned-prizefighter, who rises from obscurity to become world champion and, in one of the great tragedies in sports history, kills his homophobic archrival in … Continue reading
On October 13, 2018, the Canadian Opera Company presented the highly anticipated world premiere of Hadrian by composer Rufus Wainwright and librettist Daniel MacIvor. The opera recounts the epic love story of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his young lover, Antinous. Erased by history, their story is reclaimed for the 21st century by its creators in a … Continue reading
Queerguru fell in love with Trans opera star Lucia Lucas and her beautiful baritone voice when she was the subject of the documentary The Sound of Identity. It followed Lucas as she prepared for her US debut singing the lead Mozart’s Don Giovanni. It was inspired decision by the Tobias Pecker the Artistic … Continue reading
Gregory Spears’s critically acclaimed opera Fellow Travellers based on Thomas Mallon’s novel about gay love in the notorious McCarthy Era is having its Florida debut thanks to the Florida Grand Opera. It is set against a background of homophobic paranoia in the 1950s’ where gay men and women were publicly hounded and humiliated in … Continue reading
Die Walkure ☆☆☆☆ Arcola Theatre at Hackney Empire Here at Queerguru, we pride ourselves on being very much part of the Try-It-You-Might-Like-It -Club. Indeed one of the senior team is rumored to have that as a tramp stamp in cursive. However, when we got the invite to review Wagner’s opera Die Walkure at the … Continue reading
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