We’re celebrating five of our favourite LGBTQIA+ focused works on Canadian Opera Resource!

 

Ashlike on the Cradle of the Wind by Andrew Staniland and Jill Battson: Vignettes from the relationship between two men, one of whom eventually passes away from AIDS.

She Sees Her Lover by Craig Galbraith and Leanna Brodie: Sumana, brimming with the excitement of a first chance at love, and Agnieska, haunted by memories of her romantic past, share a night together after meeting in a bar.

What is She by John Harris and Anna Chatterton: An intersex woman wins a gold medal, but her struggles to get there mean nothing to the regulatory organization and the other athletes.

The Last Life by Anthony Young and Krista Dalby: Two sock puppets long for something more than their dreary lives. They bump into each other on the street, and it doesn’t take long for them to recognize they’re each other’s perfect match!

The Perfect Match by Katya Pine and Sharon Bajer: A farmer lovingly cares for his brown cow, not knowing the two have met before in past lives, once in the 18th century as husband and wife, and again in the 1920s, as a gay couple.

Discover more beautiful, tragic, and absurd opera on Canadian Opera Resource!