FULL The Trans Lady Sings! (Gooding) London 2023 Alice d’Lumiere
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Trans Lady Sings!
- Composer: Gooding Tina
- Libretto: Alice d’Lumiere
- Venue & Opera Company: The Cockpiz, London, UK, Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival
- Recorded: September 6, 2023
- Type: Concert Semi-staged
- Singers: Alice d’Lumiere
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Daniel Lee Chappell, PIANO
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
At Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2021 full-time Performance Poet and part-time woman, Alice d’Lumiere, staged a “Spoken Word Overture“. She laid down a challenge to herself; to overcome her deep, childhood inability to sing. Now, after a 24 month intermission, this self-confessed outsider in gender, and 51 year old late-starter in opera, returns to Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2023 to reveal if she’s finally able to hold a note.
Themes of vocal identity, gender fluidity and the individual’s need for self-expression are humorously explored by a beguiling communicator in a one hour work in progress; combining prose, verse, comedy, a dash of performance art and yes, perhaps this time some actual singing! Contains original music and possibly some foolhardy attempts at the classical repertoire.