#  Benjamin Wenzelberg '21 in Boston Globe 

 





March 10, 2022

 

 

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Benjamin Wenzelberg’s senior thesis, NIGHTTOWN — an opera that reimagines two episodes of James Joyce’s *Ulysses* — was produced in March by Lowell House Opera and featured singers Elijah McCormack and Leo Balkovetz, who [spoke with the Boston Globe](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/09/arts/trans-opera-singers-find-their-voice-nighttown/) about their experiences as trans opera singers.

> The most important thing, \[Wenzelberg\] said, was to give everyone a comfortable environment to exist as themselves, whoever they might be. “I just believe so fervently that bringing your voice to an opera production means bringing your whole self. I mean that term widely — your singing voice, your artistic voice, your expressive voice,” he said. “And I’ve said to this cast … ‘I want you to feel like you’re bringing who you are to these roles.’”
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> **A.Z. Madonna, “Trans opera singers find their voice in ‘NIGHTTOWN’”**



 

 

 



 

 

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