Content warning: contains depictions of gun violence, mentions of homophobia, transphobia, self-harm, attempted suicide, memory loss, illness, death, and violence
Julie d'Aubigny (1673-1707), more often known by her stage name "Mademoiselle Maupin," was a queer and gender non-conforming opera singer. She was a mezzo-soprano, and sang some of ...
"Bentley’s libretto is based on Frank O’Connor’s translation of the celebrated 1780 Gaelic poem by Brian Merriman (1749-1805), a work surprisingly contemporary in its frank discussion of women’s sexual needs and how men fail to meet them. In Bentley’s adaptation Merriman himself becomes the opera’s central figure who falls asleep on a midsummer...
Pirate Song raconte l'histoire vraie de deux femmes pirates du XVIIIe siècle, Mary Read, Anglaise, et Ann Bonny, Irlandaise. Pour prendre la mer, elles se déguisèrent en hommes et mêlèrent affaires et plaisir en devenant amantes en 1720 à bord d'un navire pirate commandé par Calico Jack Rackham. Attaquées par la couronne britannique plus tard cette année-là en Jamaïque….