opera
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To mark his 95th Birthday, Opera Parralle in SF present the opera HARVEY MILK: REIMAGINED
The best part of landing in San Francisco Airport recently after a very (!) long absence was discovering the Terminal was named after HARVEY MILK. It immediately conjured up such wonderful memories of one of the iconic early leaders of the fledgling LGBTQA+ community, who lost his life in the fight for our rights. In…
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Terence Blanchard’s opera CHAMPION about legendary gay boxer Emile Griffith heads for The Met in NY
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…
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Flashback Friday : Rufus Wainwright’s Opera HADRIAN from 2018
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…
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Trans Opera Star Lucia Lucas Spotlights Her Baritone Performance Of “Demeter”
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…
