Reclaiming Opera: Human Rights Issues in the Classical Canon - Closing Panel Discussion & Reception

Composers and performers Kristin Franseen, Juanita\Jay Marchand, Philon Nguyen, Eldad Tsabary, and Patricia Yates discuss the human rights issues raised by the opera canon: representations of sexual violence, murder, and domestic violence and the lack of care provided to performers and audiences; cultural appropriation and misrepresentation of BIPOC people; the near complete exclusion of disabled singers; the experiences of trans, non-binary, and queer singers; the miscategorization of voices of singers of colour; the fetishizing of lesbians and simultaneous disdain for queer content...

Last chance to see the exposition Arts & Human Rights: Conversing Multiplicities!