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FULL OPERA DU MAL (Sarah Li) & Acrimonia (Lucy Valentine) Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2025 Katie Oswell
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: OPERA DU MAL & Acrimonia
- Composer: Li Sarah, Lucy Valentine
- Libretto: Charles Baudelaire Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
- Recorded: June 28, 2025
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Katie Oswell, Lucy Valentine
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble
- Stage Director: Ed Cole
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: tete a tete
- Date Published: 2025
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
‘Opera du Mal’ is a scratch performance presenting one of the arias from this opera in development. This opera is a Queer, anti-misogynist reinterpretation of the poetry of Baudelaire, exploring themes of cruising and abandoned public space as places for Queer encounters. The aria is called ‘Le Serpent Qui Danse’ and is the moment where the character falls in lust with a woman that she meets in an abandoned space. The moment is fraught at this point in the opera because there is a risk to their being discovered and wider themes of Catholicism.
Themes explored in the wider project outside of this aria include: the concept of being ‘out’, the interplay of what may on the surface seem like the conflicting identities of Queer and Catholic and grasping moments of femme solidarity. The piece despite its darker elements is also about those moments of connection, self discovery, pleasure and joy.
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