Cracking Opera’s Trans Glass Ceiling
Nov 19, 2020
2 minutes
BY JEFFREY MASTERS
he history of opera is steeped in a surprisingly transgressive relationship to gender. Mozart, Strauss, and Verdi all wrote “trouser roles” or “pants roles,” male characters explicitly created to be played by women; the earliest known operas had female sopranos in the roles of boys. Castrati,
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