opera
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I Loves You Porgy ….. live on PBS Great Performances on July 17th
We may be spoilt for choices with so much culture now being streamed online right now, but here is one real treat we would not dream of missing. This Friday, July 17, PBS’s Great Performances will present the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019 production of George and Ira Gershwin and DuBose and Dorothy Heyward’s Porgy and Bess. Directed by…
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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…
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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…
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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…
