The Island of Tulipatan

A satirist with a wicked sense of humor, there was no subject that composer Jacques Offenbach was afraid to tackle. The Island of Tulipatan, written in 1868 during a time when society thought gender to be binary, is a subversive piece questioning gender assignment and gender norms. In a Gilbert and Sullivan-like plot, Offenbach tells the tale of two people whose parents, for very "operetta plot" reasons, choose to raise them as genders different ...