“The Trans Lady Sings!”
Schedule
Sun Jul 28 2024 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Norwich Arts Centre | Norwich, EN
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Written and Performed by Alice d’LumiereOriginal Composition by Tina Gooding, with additional music by Alice d’Lumiere
To gender fluid spoken word artist Alice d’Lumiere, classical music has always seemed terrifyingly stratified: Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Bass; is the role you play always ordained by the limits of your vocal physiology? However, in the superficially respectable world of Opera, gender seems temptingly bendy at times…
For Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2021 Alice staged a “Spoken Word Overture”. At this evening of new experimental opera she laid down a challenge to herself in prose and verse; a pledge to try and overcome her deep, childhood inability to sing…
Two years, one ACE funded DYCP, numerous singing lessons with 6 different practitioners, scripting, composing, rehearsing and furiously attempting to relearn how to play to piano later, this self-confessed outsider in gender, and 51 year old late-starter in opera, returned to Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 to reveal if she was finally able to hold a note.
“Trans Lady Sings!” is the result of this eccentric endeavour…
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Where is it happening?
Norwich Arts Centre, 51 St Benedicts Street,Norwich, Norfolk, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
