Gender? Come On! Anthony Roth Costanzo on the power of castrati and baroque discos
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What is gender? What do we consider truly masculine and feminine? We have rather rigid notions about it, and few can imagine that there's anything in between. And we have exactly the same notions about opera, especially baroque opera. They say it's complicated, too clever, and too sad. And Anthony Roth Costanzo shatters all these prejudices about both gender and opera. Anthony is a countertenor; he sings even higher than many opera singers. We'll discuss his collaborations with Raf Simons and Tilda Swinton, his attempts to make the classics fashionable, and his own uplifting and astonishing story.
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00:00 - We have pretty narrow-minded ideas about what's masculine and what's feminine.
08:24 - So you were never embarrassed to sing in a female voice?
14:39 - He didn't speak English, and I barely spoke Italian back then. Two weeks after I met him, I was already fluent in Italian.
15:14 - If you're going to have oral sex, use a condom.
18:24 - They're somewhere between male and female. Which I find interesting because they exist outside the gender binary.
22:42 - There were so many men and women who found castrati sexually interesting and attractive.
32:42 - It's just music; you don't need to know anything about it to get the emotion.
33:50 - Maybe that's what I'll do next? A disco with classical music.
41:05 - I'd like to think I'm monogamous. But I really don't know.
43:20 - I'm really looking forward to playing this Egyptian pharaoh, who I think would be queer by today's standards.