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Berlin’s Two Gentrifications of the Mind (Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz)
This essay was commissioned by director Tilman Hecker for the program book of Mein Süßes Leib, a Berlin version of Sarah Schulman’s The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination conceived as a collage of texts, file clips, newspaper reports and interviews from the beginning of the as yet untold Aids crisis in…
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After Nearly Five Decades, Waltraud Meier Takes Her Final Opera Bow (NYTimes)
The famed singer, known for her captivating presence, intellectual approach and distinctive sound, is retiring from the stage with “Elektra.”
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Queer, Dangerous, Exciting (VAN)
In memory of James Jorden (1954-2023), founder of the queer opera zine Parterre Box.
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With a Pool and an Airport Hangar, an Opera Company Gets Nomadic (New York Times)
In Berlin, the Komische Oper is experimenting with its performance venues while its theater undergoes a multiyear renovation.
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An Orchestra’s ‘Ode to Joy’ Calls for Ukrainian Freedom (New York Times)
As war in Ukraine continues, so does the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, with a version of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony tailored to the moment.
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A Queer Revolutionary Classic Book, Now Onstage With Music (New York Times)
“The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions” is a new piece of music theater by the composer Philip Venables and the writer-director Ted Huffman, an adaptation of Larry Mitchell’s 1977 gay liberation cult classic.
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Eldorado: Everything The Nazis Hate (Netflix)
100 years ago, queer lives and culture were thriving in Weimar Berlin. This film celebrates known and unsung queer icons and characters, all of whom passed through the infamous Eldorado nightclub in Berlin Schöneberg. The realization of this documentary became possible through our exceptional team and a broad spectrum of Berlin’s queer community. It paints…
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Rejecting the Klarwelt: How Elisàr von Kupffer Complicates Queer History (NSDoku München)
A catalogue essay, adapted from my ongoing PhD research, for the Munich Center for the Documentation of the History of National Socialism about the gay artist Elisàr von Kupffer’s queer fascist masculinity.
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Renée Fleming Adds a New Role to Her Repertoire: Pat Nixon (New York Times)
The superstar soprano discusses her debut in John Adams’s “Nixon in China” at the Paris Opera. For starters, she spends the second act with a dragon.