What does gender have to do with opera? Does opera need to be gay? Composer Alexis Lamb and scholar Hallie Voulgaris join us to talk about the opera's weird relationship with gender and sexuality.

Cast and Crew: Allison Chu, Alexis Lamb, Frances Pollock, Hallie Voulgaris

Produced by Connor O'Toole and Frances Pollock

Dive deeper:

• Pants Roles


• Castrato


• Ethel Smyth


• Singspiel


• David Smooke


• Elizabeth Wood, "Sapphonics" in Queering the Pitch, ed. by Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas (London: Routledge, 2011), 27-66.


• As One, by Laura Kaminsky, Mark Campbell, and Kimberly Reed


• Aiden Feltkamp


• Griffin Candey


• Heartbeat Opera


• Drag Queen Story Hour at the Brooklyn Public Library


• Slave Play, Jeremy O. Harris


• Fire in my mouth, Julia Wolfe


• Denis and Katya, by Philip Venables and Ted Huffman


• Eli Greenhoe

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Theme Music written by Frances Pollock

Episode Four -- Alexis, Hallie, Gender, Harry Potter was filmed over zoom and in New Haven, CT where we followed all COVID guidelines throughout the filming process