“This isn’t an opera that touches on queer themes; it’s a bundle of queer themes tied up in an opera.”
This summer’s festival, taking place amid record high temperatures and in the wake of its artistic director, Pierre Audi, featured a disquietingly zeigeisty focus on sexual violence.
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