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Matt Morris, Christopher Gambino and Paula McLean
Greetings, Mary Garden
Espace Maurice
March 29, 2025 - April 19th, 2025
“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven’t acted on your desires. You’ve suffered a stunted, vicarious existence. You’ve silenced your passions. The volume, height, depth, lushness and excess of operatic utterance reveal, by contrast, how small your gestures have been until now, how impoverished you physicality; you have only used a fraction of your bodily endowment, and your throat is closed.”
Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen’s Throat : Opera, Homosexuality And The Mystery of Desire (1993)
“Rejoice, Virgin, mother of Christ, who conceived through the ear, by the messenger Gabriel”
Saint Augustine, Sermo de Tempore, xxii
Hardly anyone remembers Mary Garden’s death, early in January 1967 –the same day Jack Ruby, killer of the US presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died. The New York Times published a tiny column, while the Cornell Sun…
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Press Release
Matt Morris, Christopher Gambino and Paula McLean
Greetings, Mary Garden
Espace Maurice
March 29, 2025 - April 19th, 2025
“Opera has the power to warn you that you have wasted your life. You haven’t acted on your desires. You’ve suffered a stunted, vicarious existence. You’ve silenced your passions. The volume, height, depth, lushness and excess of operatic utterance reveal, by contrast, how small your gestures have been until now, how impoverished you physicality; you have only used a fraction of your bodily endowment, and your throat is closed.”
Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen’s Throat : Opera, Homosexuality And The Mystery of Desire (1993)
“Rejoice, Virgin, mother of Christ, who conceived through the ear, by the messenger Gabriel”
Saint Augustine, Sermo de Tempore, xxii
Hardly anyone remembers Mary Garden’s death, early in January 1967 –the same day Jack Ruby, killer of the US presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died. The New York Times published a tiny column, while the Cornell Sun…








































