opera

  • The Making of ABOMINATION a very Queer Opera

    The Making of ABOMINATION a very Queer Opera

      You don’t have to be a native of Northern Ireland to enjoy and appreciate a wonderful new documentary Opera that traces the Province’s struggle for LGBTQ rights which ends on a happy and uplifting note. Queer writer/composer Conor Mitchell  wrote ABOMINATION simply using verbatim political statements in a manner that engaged people not used…

  • Miami : Before Night Falls;  the memoir of a Cuban gay dissident is now an Opera

    Miami : Before Night Falls; the memoir of a Cuban gay dissident is now an Opera

      The story of Reinaldo Arenas, the brilliant and irrepressible dissident Cuban that was captured in his own memoir ‘Before Night Falls‘ is now retold in a  opera about to be produced by the Florida Grand Opera. Arenas was an outcast who was jailed for his outspoken writing and flamboyant sexuality, and then escaped on the…

  • You Don’t Know Opera

    You Don’t Know Opera

    Frank Engel is hot.  Not just because of his looks, but the fact that he sings like an angel and boxes like a pro.  For his day job he is a tenor in the choir of the National Opera in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, but when he is not working he can be found in the…