Queer Arts Festival: The Queen in Me
The Queen in Me explores the constraints of conventional opera roles and their reliance on gender and sex stereotypes, exploding operatic expectations of demure muses and femme fatales by turning the genre on its head
Date/Time: Jun 22 2019, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Vancouver, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | Event calendar181 Roundhouse Mews
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Cost: $30.00
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Multidisciplinary musical Performance | Amplified Opera and Theatre Gargantua
“I had to tell her story, then I had to tell mine.”— Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野
The curtain rises mid-performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, as the Queen of the Night’s highly anticipated aria, Der Hölle Rache, begins. However, this time, the Queen rebels against her expected narrative, refuses to finish the opera, and tells her story in her own words for the first time – at a cost.
“Somewhere our truths collide, all sung unamplified.” — Queen of the Night
Kasahara, a biracial, masculine non-binary female artist, takes inspiration from her career as a professional opera singer alongside her lived experiences as a queer, feminist, person of colour to re-imagine the Queen of the Night, one of opera’s most infamous “fallen women,” and places her in the centre of a metaphor for silenced and discarded women everywhere.
Created and performed by Teiya Kasahara
Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, pianist
Directed by Andrea Donaldson
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