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    Man With the X-Ray Eyes
    Content warning: violence, death, murder

    Based on a 1960s film by the same name, this story follows two doctors, James and Sam, when an argument turns deadly.
    Composer: Chris Thornborrow
    Librettist: Morris Panych

    Man With the X-Ray Eyes
    Man With the X-Ray Eyes
    Restoration
    A woman is being examined by various doctors.  Weakly, she sings of what she used to be.  One doctor smears lipstick on her.  She doesn’t want to go.
    Composer: Gareth Williams
    Librettist: Michael Pollard

    Restoration
    Restoration
    What is She?
    Content warning: misgendering, intersex discrimination

    A meditation on the discrimination intersex athletes face from their peers. A woman wins a gold medal, but her struggles to get there mean nothing to the organization and the other athletes. She’s disqualified and shamed.
    Composer: John Harris
    Librettist: Anna Chatterton

    What is She?
    What is She?
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    Excerpts
    Dark Star Requiem – “Zero Six One”

    Soloists and chorus sing the numbers attributed to HIV-1 and HIV-2 by the International Comitte of Taxonomy of Viruses.

    Dark Star Requiem – “Congo and one of the four H’s”

    As the Democratic Republic of Congo fights for its independence, patients are being hospitalized and dying from AIDS-related illness.

    Dark Star Requiem – “Beauty Mark” (aria)

    From the perspective of a beauty mark that progresses into a serious medical complication.

    Dark Star Requiem – “0”

    A spoken monologue about the arrival of HIV to North America and Gaetan Dugas, the presumed patient-0.

    Dark Star Requiem – “Sentinel”

    A solo by the mezzo-soprano about nuns sex-shaming in hospitals, while the chorus repeatedly sings "sanctus".

    Dark Star Requiem – “Cuba Libre”

    An ode to alcohol and cocktails that devolves into a listing of medications.

    Dark Star Requiem – “Black Lion”

    The soloists describe AIDS as a black lion and a pack of hyenas, while the chorus continues listing medications.

    Man With the X-Ray Eyes – Man with the X-Ray Eyes

    James, an eye doctor wanting to keep his new x-ray vision, argues with his colleague Sam and accidentally kills him, as his assistant Diane watches.

    Restoration – Restoration

    A woman cryptically remembers her past as she is briefly examined by three different people.

    What is She? – What is She?

    An intersex woman wins a gold medal, but her struggles to get there mean nothing to the organization and the other athletes. She’s disqualified and shamed.

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