Edmonton Opera stages first openly LGBTQ production with Lilies

Edmonton Opera enters uncharted territory in the Jubilee on Saturday as it opens its season with a new opera that has already been acclaimed by audiences and critics since its premiere in Montreal in 2016.
Lilies is an operatic adaptation by Australian composer Kevin March of the celebrated Canadian play Les Feluettes by Michel Marc Bouchard. In 2002, March saw the 1993 movie of the play directed by John Greyson, and had “the overwhelming sense I was watching an opera.” He discussed