“This isn’t an opera that touches on queer themes; it’s a bundle of queer themes tied up in an opera.”
Composer Philip Venables talks about queer utopias and bending gender and genre in The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions which opens at the Park Avenue Armory this week.
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Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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