Katherine Ciesinski is a mezzo-soprano whose repertoire includes damsels in distress, witches, mothers, women of questionable morals, and trouser roles. Ms. Ciesinski is also Voice Department Chair, Moores School of Music, University of Houston.
When it comes to trouser roles, girls will be better boys than boys themselves.
Think MTV invented gender-bending? Marilyn Horne was cross-dressing when RuPaul was still in Huggies. Mezzo soprano Katherine Ciesinski investigates the genesis of the “breeches part.”
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