The rare queer opera – Professional discussions 
with Skeive Stemmer

Opera Trøndelag, 2024 - Folf er folk
https://www.youtube.com/live/wgigwghglNU 

Skeive Stemmer in collaboration with with Opera Trøndelag
created a full day about queerness and opera.

Skeive Stemmer invited performing artists, cultural workers, 
activists, academics and critic Aksel Tollåli to a conversation 
about the importance of queer art and the framework around it.

Where are we today when it comes to queer opera, what 
are the prerequisites for queer artists and where do we want to go?

- Doctoral fellow Daniel Fong and the lecture "The Rarity of Queer Opera" 

-Introduction by musicologist and opera critic Aksel Tollåli

- Presentation by Director and choreographer Arne Fagerholt, 
costume designer and member of Skeive Stemmer Operakompani 
Fridtjof Helle Brevig, costume designer and leader of Opera Trøndelag 
Anne Spets.

- Panel discussion

- Screening of trailer from Skeive Stemmer's production of 
De Lystige Koner I Windsor, Grimeborn Festival ’23

- Presentation by activist and former leader of Trondheim Pride 
Eiv Rindal, curating dramaturg at Rosendal Teater Guro Stuggu, 
doctoral fellow Daniel Fong.