French Guise
Julie D’Aubigny was a seventeenth century sword-fightng opera singer who premiered operatic roles for some of the most esteemed composers of her day. She also famously defeated three men in duels in a single evening, and burnt down a convent in order to escape with her female lover.
Or did she?
French Guise interrogates the colourfully told stories of Julie’s life through a twenty-first century lens, applying notions of gender identity and expression and gendered power imbalances, with Baroque music and new song commissions from Anne Cawrse.