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The Mezzo soprano en travesti: A Body in Disguise, a Song of Sexuality

  • Christ Church 46 Reading Road Henley-on-Thames, England, RG9 1AG United Kingdom (map)

This lecture-recital with mezzo soprano, Clover Kayne, explores how opera reflects, constructs, and challenges ideas of gender — particularly through the mezzo-soprano voice. Often cast as boys, witches, confidantes, or outcasts, mezzos frequently exist on the edges of operatic society: neither heroine nor villain, lover nor beloved. This “in-betweenness” is what makes the voice type so dramatically rich — and so revealing.

£30.00
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