Name: Fat Pig
Start: 2020-11-23
End: 2020-11-23
Location: The Haven

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Singer

Soprano

Tracy Cox

Helen

Baritone

Keith Phares

Sarah Wolfson

Jeannie

Tenor

Will Ferguson

Carter

Conductor

Kathleen Kelly

Victory Hall Opera

Fat Pig

Charlottesville

United States

The Haven

Fat Pig Boehler

Public

Approved

Coming to screens April 2, 2022 World Premiere chamber opera by Matt BoehlerCommissioned, developed and produced by Victory Hall Operawith live performance a...

When Tom begins dating Helen, a confident plus-sized woman, he faces the taunts and judgment of his peers. In Helen, we finally see an operatic character, written specifically for a fat performer, telling of an experience that is all too common.

Adapted from the award-winning 2004 play by iconic American playwright Neil LaBute, this black comedy reveals the operatic reserves of human truth that lie beneath the surface of a workplace rom-com.

Tracy Cox (Helen), fat-activist and co-star of the popular YouTube series Angry Fat People, speaks about Fat Pig:

“Yikes – what a title. Why would I, as a self- identified fat person and activist, want to sing in an opera with such a startling title?

Because this project endeavors to tell one of the stories of the fat experience — a subject that has never before been approached in opera. This piece tells the story of a fat woman who falls in love with a man in a normative body, and the tragedy that follows when the misogyny and fatmisia of the man’s friends and colleagues prove too much for them to overcome. This is a common experience for fat people — having intimate partners who won’t take the relationship public because they are unwilling or unable to deal with the realities of the deeply ingrained fatphobia in our society. 

I was frankly blown away that both the playwright Neil LaBute and Victory Hall Opera had seen the value in telling such a story.”

English

Fat Pig by Boehler, Mon 23 Nov 2020, From (2020/2020), Conductor Kathleen Kelly, The Haven, Charlottesville, United States

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