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jempai · 3 years ago

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thinking about how Dame Ethel Smyth’s opera The Wreckers most definitely has gay themes and yet zero productions seem to capitalize on Avis’s homophobic allegory aria or try to cast Mark as a mezzo

anyways Peter Grimes and The Wreckers double bill when?

#mumblings #opera #the whole *literally married to the church* for Thirza #refusal to repent for their sins and dying as a couple #avis belatedly offering the excuse of heterosexuality only for it to be denied #also given the attempts at a german premiere lets not forget the fach system #with thirza as a mezzo married to a baritone but ultimately falling for a tenor #even though tradition would say sopranos and tenors ought to pair together #and smyth would likely have done this intentionally and despite that its not considered just as much of gay allegory as #peter grimes #for shame :( and misogyny ig #musics

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