FULL LILI ELBE (Picker) St.Gallen 2023 Lucia Lucas, Sylvia D’Eramo, Mack Wolz, Jennifer Panara
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Lili Elbe
- Composer: Picker Tobias
- Libretto: Aryeh Lev Stollman Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Theater St.Gallen, Switzerland
- Recorded: October 22, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Lucia Lucas, Sylvia D’Eramo, Mack Wolz, Jennifer Panara, Brian Michael Moore, Théo Imart, Sam Taskinen, Kristján Jóhannesson, David Maze, Msimelelo Mbali, Elias Podolski
- Conductor: Modestas Pitrenas
- Orchestra: St. Gallen Symphonic Orchestra, Metanoia Quartet
- Chorus: Theater St. Gallen Symphony Chorus
- Chorus Master: Franz Obermair
- Ballet: St. Gallen Dance Company
- Choreographer: Frank Fannar Pedersen
Information about the Recording
- Published by: OperaVision
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, desubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The world’s first major opera about a transgender person opens in the renovated and expanded Great House. Lili Elbe is the latest work by Grammy-winning American composer Tobias Picker and librettist Aryeh Lev Stollman, commissioned by Konzert und Theater St. Gallen.
The opera Lili Elbe tells the story of the woman of the same name, Lili Elbe, who was married to the painter Gerda Wegener and had one of the first gender reassignment procedures carried out in the 1930s. Above all, Lili Elbe is the story of a great love that overcomes all obstacles and is therefore one of the great works of the opera repertoire. At the same time, the opera provides an insight into the life of a woman who was born with a body that was read as male, had her coming out and her transition at a time when gender reassignment surgery was still completely new territory and there were practically no role models. Lili Elbe is also a work about identity and the courage to do pioneering work.
Quoted from Theater St.Gallen