Opera Resonates: Gender-Bending on the Opera Stage

Opera Resonates: Gender-Bending on the Opera Stage

Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and Offenbach's Orphee aux Enfers
Sunday, April 9, 2017 . 1:30PM

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Women play men regularly in opera. For centuries, higher voices were equated with nobility, purity and even virility.  What does this say about attitudes toward gender and the transgendered in ages past? What is our experience today in watching women play romantic male leads and heroes? Sociology, psychology and politics collide in music.