http://mybiggayears.com/archives/thomas-ades-at-carnegie-hall-327/ Tuning in to Queer Culture Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:07:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://mybiggayears.com/archives/thomas-ades-at-carnegie-hall-327/comment-page-1/#comment-993 John Lorenzen Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:12:26 +0000 http://mybiggayears.com/?p=1288#comment-993 Mr. Ades, you won't write a gay opera because its "too gay, too contrived" C'mon!! That is a cop out if I ever heard one. Sound to me that you are "too scared". Don't you think that 400 years of opera plots are 'gay and contrived' already??---you simply are adding a little more with 2 men as romantic leads. Mr. Ades, you have an opportunity to celebrate your union by being a musical/operatic voice for thousands of gay couples who are woefully underrespresented in operas. We are the invisible people. How about making us visible musically, hmmm? Courage, Mr. Ades, courage! Mr. Ades, you won’t write a gay opera because its “too gay, too contrived” C’mon!! That is a cop out if I ever heard one. Sound to me that you are “too scared”. Don’t you think that 400 years of opera plots are ‘gay and contrived’ already??—you simply are adding a little more with 2 men as romantic leads. Mr. Ades, you have an opportunity to celebrate your union by being a musical/operatic voice for thousands of gay couples who are woefully underrespresented in operas. We are the invisible people. How about making us visible musically, hmmm? Courage, Mr. Ades, courage!

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