Alice d’Lumiere’s Trans Lady Sings Gender can seem remarkably fluid, at times, in opera despite the apparent restrictions of vocal physiology. To a long tradition of female mezzo-sopranos in trousers and tenors in frocks, we […]
In a move that has shocked the orchestra, concertmaster Vineta Sareika has told the Berlin Philharmonic she will be leaving in February. Sareika has spent three just over three years in the seat, and the […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Ethel Smyth was a middle-class butch lesbian from an English military family who went to jail for the Suffragette cause and was seen conducting fellow-inmates at Holloway Prison […]