This show is currently on priority sale, general sale opens on Fri 2 May. If you'd like to secure your favourite seats become a member here. Truelove Tours presents The Trans Lady Sings! Written and Performed by Alice d'Lumiere Original Composition by Tina Gooding, with additional music by Alice d'Lumiere Contralto? Baritone? No Limits! No Preconceptions! (No Clue)… To gender-fluid spoken word artist Alice d'Lumiere, classical music has always seemed terrifyingly stratified: Soprano, Contralto, Tenor, Bass; is the role you play always ordained by the limits of your vocal physiology? However, in the superficially respectable world of Opera, gender seems temptingly bendy at times… For Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival Alice staged a "Spoken Word Overture". At this evening of new, experimental opera she laid down a challenge to herself in prose and verse; a pledge to try to overcome her deep, childhood inability to sing… Two years, one Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant, numerous singing lessons with 6 different practitioners, scripting, composing, rehearsing and furiously attempting to relearn how to play to piano later, this self-confessed outsider in gender, and 50+ late-starter in opera, returned to Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival to reveal if she was finally able to hold a note. Trans Lady Sings! is the result of this eccentric endeavour… Themes of vocal identity, gender fluidity, life-long learning and the individual's need for self-expression are humorously explored by a beguiling communicator in a show; combining prose, verse, comedy, a dash of performance art and yes, perhaps this time some actual singing! Contains original music and some possibly foolhardy attempts at the classical repertoire.