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The opera is a comedy in three acts set in 18th-century Vienna. It tells the story of the young Count Octavian, lover to the aristocratic Marschallin, who is asked to act as the "Rosenkavalier" (Rose Knight) for the boorish Baron Ochs, presenting a silver rose to his intended bride, Sophie. Octavian and Sophie fall in love instantly, leading to a comic intrigue to free Sophie from her engagement to Ochs, facilitated by the Marschallin, who ultimately steps aside and blesses the young couple's union

Emily & Sue is an a cappella pop opera/musical by composer Dana Kaufman (danakaufmanmusic.com) and librettist Aiden K. Feltkamp with an accompanying film featuring Jasmine Muhammad and the Iris Trio directed by Ron Bashford and produced by Four/Ten Media.

Emily & Sue focuses on the little-known romantic relationship between Emily Dickinson and her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson. Emily spent much of her life in seclusion and particularly in her room, where Emily & Sue takes place. Letters between Emily and Sue, as well as Emily’s poetry, document an intimate relationship that wasn’t socially acceptable or legally recognized in 19th-century Massachusetts; the plot of Emily & Sue extrapolates from their correspondences.

Emily & Sue was commissioned by Amherst College (which owns Dickinson’s house) and is available for downloading and streaming on Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, Bandcamp & Adhyâropa Records. A film version of the opera, filmed in Dickinson’s actual bedroom, has been screened at events around the United States. The opera has been performed at Amherst College, the National Opera Center, and the NYU Free Play Festival, as well as by Lowbrow Opera Collective. Emily & Sue was also Finalist for “Noteworthy Project.” OPERA America Digital Excellence in Opera Award.

The opera follows the rise and fall of Lulu, a femme fatale who destroys her lovers. Among them is Countess Geschwitz, a lesbian who is hopelessly in love with Lulu. Geschwitz helps Lulu escape prison, is betrayed, and ultimately is killed by Jack the Ripper while professing her love for Lulu.

Set in the 1810s, Patience, a painter, and Sarah, a farmer's daughter, fall in love. They defy societal norms, leave their homes, and create a life together on a farm in Connecticut. It ends happily.

The story follows Saving Liz, a young, idealistic punk rocker singer-songwriter in 1996 London who sets out to "change the world" through music. Unable to succeed in a patriarchal industry, she falls for country singer Billie Parker, leading to a 20-year relationship filled with love, ambition, and compromise. Interwoven is a meta-theatrical subplot about a 1950s Hollywood producer trying to make a film about the same subject, featuring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The story is told against the backdrop of world events like the death of Princess Diana and 9/11

Petra von Kant is a successful, arrogant fashion designer. She lives with her submissive assistant, Marlene. When a beautiful younger woman, Karin, arrives, Petra becomes obsessively in love with her. The relationship is a power struggle: Petra dominates, Karin manipulates, and Marlene silently suffers. Karin eventually leaves, and Petra collapses emotionally, begging Marlene to stay. Marlene silently packs her bags and walks out, leaving Petra alone. The opera is a raw study of lesbian desire, toxic personality, and emotional collapse, all set entirely in Petra’s bedroom.

Four short operas created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall uprising. 1. Nightlife (TJ Rubin / Deepali Gupta): Inside the Stonewall Inn, a police raid exposes a closeted lesbian, a reclaimed slur, addiction, and a coming‑out. 2. Outside (Bryan Blaskie / Seth Christenfeld): In a bar near Stonewall on the night of Judy Garland’s funeral, police extortion and sexual abuse lead to an uprising. 3. The Pomada Inn (Brian Cavanagh‑Strong / Ben Bonnema): Two gay couples – one in 1969 New York, another in 2019 Madrid – are compared; the bar as sanctuary, safety concerns and police raids. 4. The Community (Kevin Cummines / Shoshana Greenberg): 400 years in the future, after an apocalypse, the only surviving artefact is a book about Stonewall, which has become a cult; polyamory is the norm, “queens” are sacred, dissident characters want monogamy and solitude – a queer utopia turned dystopia.

The opera depicts the legendary Paris salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, a lesbian couple who hosted artists like Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The number 27 refers to their address at 27 rue de Fleurus.

In a German forest during the Middle Ages, the woodcutter Heinrich and his fiancée, Röschen, are preparing for their wedding. The malevolent Iolanthe, mistress of the Landgrave, becomes infatuated with Heinrich. When Heinrich rejects her advances, Iolanthe exposes his act of poaching a roebuck. She gives him a choice: submit to her or face punishment. Encouraged by Röschen, Heinrich defies Iolanthe, who then has her huntsmen stab him. Röschen falls lifeless on his body as the forest spirits look on, indifferent to human tragedy.

The show chronicles Frieda Belinfante’s extraordinary life journey, from her youth in Amsterdam, through her sexual awakening, the war years, and the subsequent depression, to her new life in the United States, where she became a successful conductor and found the love of her life

The musical drama recounts the 1998 torture and murder of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, through the eyes of his best friend, Romaine Patterson. The story covers his meeting with Patterson, who is a lesbian, his social life, the attack, and his death. The narrative then follows Patterson's response, including her breaking up a protest by a fundamentalist preacher at Shepard's funeral, the trial of the killers, and her eventual activism and marriage proposal from her girlfriend, Olivia.

The story follows a lesbian love affair that transcends time and space. On a school trip to the ruins of Pompeii, the fantasies of teens Suzie and Cass ignite. They are transported from 1977 to 79 AD, where they explore romantic freedom in a women’s mystery cult, only for their relationship to be threatened by a spurned male suitor and the impending eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The timeline then shifts to 1981 and the Fly by Night, a Toronto lesbian bar, in the aftermath of the infamous Bathhouse Raids. As the reincarnated couple struggles to repair their love in the face of homophobia and family pressure, a tragedy unfolds, revealing a transcendent love

The story follows a diverse group of fictional characters as their lives collide at the Stonewall Inn on a hot night in June 1969. Part I explores the life of each character in the hours leading up to the riot, establishing the oppressive atmosphere of 1960s New York. Part II sees the police raid the club, which the patrons initially endure but then revolt against after being pushed too far. Part III takes place the morning after, as the characters, aware that something momentous has occurred, await the new dawn

The opera intertwines a single day in the lives of three women from different eras: book editor Clarissa Vaughan in 1999 New York, novelist Virginia Woolf in 1923 England, and housewife Laura Brown in 1949 Los Angeles. Their stories are connected through Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa prepares a party for her close friend Richard, a writer dying of AIDS. Laura, feeling stifled by domesticity, contemplates suicide while reading Mrs. Dalloway. Virginia, struggling with mental illness, begins writing the novel while also battling suicidal thoughts. The stories culminate with Richard's suicide, Laura's eventual abandonment of her family years later, and the three women acknowledging their connection across time

Set in the Qing Dynasty, the story follows two beautiful and talented women, Cui Jianyun and Cao Yuhua, who fall in love after becoming captivated by each other's appearance and literary skills. To be together, they secretly scheme to marry the same man, allowing them to remain as lifelong companions

Set in ancient Phoenicia, the opera centers on the goddess Astarte and her priestesses, who engage in ritualized lesbian desire and transgressive power struggles. The plot involves a mortal queen who seeks to usurp divine power, leading to seduction, ritual sacrifice, and the blurring of gender roles. The work explores themes of non‑binary divinity, female homoeroticism, and the collapse of moral order through transgression.

After the murder of her father, King Agamemnon, Elektra lives only for revenge against her mother, Klytämnestra, and her lover, Aegisth. Her obsession alienates her sister, Chrysothemis, who yearns for a normal life. The long-lost brother Orestes returns, kills their mother and Aegisth, and Elektra dies in a final dance of triumph

The king of the gods, Jupiter (Giove), becomes obsessed with the nymph Calisto, a follower of the chaste goddess Diana. To seduce her, he disguises himself as Diana. The plan works, and in the disguise, the "lesbian" seduction of Calisto takes place. Meanwhile, the real Diana falls in love with the shepherd Endimione. When Jupiter's wife Juno discovers the affair, she transforms Calisto into a bear out of jealousy. The opera ends with Jupiter transforming Calisto into the constellation Ursa Major.

A political song about the ongoing feminist struggle, with lyrics that declare: "O to fight to the death with a hope through the strife / That the freedom we seek shall be ours!"

The story opens in the present day with the portrait of Lady Rhondda being hung in the House of Lords, posthumously granting her the seat she was denied in life. The narrative then flashes back to 1908, following the charismatic suffragette Margaret Haig Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda. She leads the women of Newport in their fight for the vote by organizing rallies, attacking politicians, and setting fire to a postbox, for which she is sent to jail. The opera also covers her survival of the sinking of the Lusitania, her divorce from her husband, her new relationship with journalist Helen Archdale, and her founding of the feminist magazine Time and Tide.

A darkly comic chamber opera set in 1950s rural America. When Elizabeth Brigmann’s father dies suddenly, she decides to return to the small town that had shunned her for coming out as gay twelve years earlier. She arrives with her partner, Kate, and together they must navigate the townspeople's lingering disapproval, the precarious state of the family's candy shop business, and Elizabeth’s family's quite literal deal with the Devil, who appears in the form of a man named Carl

The opera explores the hidden, lifelong love affair between Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States, and journalist Lorena Hickok (“Hick”). Set against a backdrop of public duty and private longing, the work portrays their intimate relationship, from initial attraction to separation and reunion. An omnipresent “External World” (represented by a chorus of off‑stage voices) constantly observes and judges them, forcing them to disguise their love as friendship. The story ends with a bittersweet acknowledgment of their bond, even as they must remain apart for political survival.