Hildebrandt Travesti

En el Bucarest de 1973, el joven Víctor aspira algún día a convertirse en un gran escritor desconocido, que morirá pobre y solo dejando su obra maestra para la posteridad. Víctor también sueña con su hermana amputada, con laberintos y arañas. Pero entonces ocurre algo que parte literalmente su vida en dos, como dimensiones paralelas a un lado y otro de un espejo…

Anna Bonitatibus is one of the most successful mezzo-sopranos of our time. On her new album entitled en travesti, together with the Munich Radio Orchestra conducted by Corrado Rovaris, she presents the most famous and important arias written over the past three hundred years for women acting in male roles on the opera stage: so-called trouser roles. The studio recordings by the Bayerischer Rundfunk were made in the summer of 2016, and have now been released on BR-KLASSIK.

This book sheds new light on the interconnections between identity, gender and geographical displacement. At its centre are Brazilian travesti migrants, assigned as male at birth but later seeking to convey the aesthetic attributes of women by repeatedly performing a minutely-studied type of femininity. Despite the fact that they have been migrating between Brazil and Europe for more than forty years, very little is know about them, especially in the English-speaking world.