Category: Journalism & Criticism
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A Female Composer Makes History With ‘Orlando’ in Vienna (New York Times)
Olga Neuwirth’s new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s gender-crossing novel is the first work by a woman at the Vienna State Opera.
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Time Is A Queer Thing (Media Guru)
A zine featuring my text on queer art, and images by Sholem Krishtalka, Florian Hetz, and Peter Welz, published by AA Bronson’s Media Guru Editions. USA/Canada: Buy online from Printed Matter. Europe: Buy directly from me. An excerpt: I was talking with a friend once about queer mentors and I said I felt lucky to have so…
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‘Licht’ Unleashes a Helicopter String Quartet (New York Times)
A preview of Stockhausen’s ‘aus LICHT,’ a new production at the Holland Festival pushing the boundaries of technical and musical possibility.
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New Magic for a Classic Opera in Berlin (New York Times)
I profiled Yuval Sharon’s new production of The Magic Flute at the Berlin State Opera.
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What Would Queer Utopia Look Like? (Slate)
An essay on the complexities and contradictions of Leo Herrera’s gorgeous sci-fi webseries The Fathers Project.
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Bursting Through Confines (VAN)
I saw, and reviewed, five operas at the Aix Festival in July. An excerpt: The first thing I saw was groups of soldiers. Aix-en-Provence, a wealthy tourist resort and college town, is not their primary target, and France is only the latest in a long series of countries to be occupied by the French military.…
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Silence, Breaking (VAN)
On knowing and deciding not to know about James Levine, and how a cult of interpretive genius enabled abuse. Dieser Aufsatz wurde auch in deutscher Sprache veröffentlicht.
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Beckmesser’s Dream (VAN)
An essay about Barrie Kosky’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” at the Bayreuth Festival for this terrifyingly intelligent magazine about classical music. Read it here.
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Review | The Pox Lover (Lambda Literary)
The bloodied emotional battlefields of AIDS activism, national and familial histories of fascist collaboration, the storms of a personal life torn between continents, the rising threat of neofascism, and the universal pyroclastic flows of desire and disease: these are the urgent themes of Anne-christine d’Adesky’s new “activist diary-cum-battlefield-notes-cum-travelogue,” The Pox Lover, a memoir of her…