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“There’s just nothing like three women singing. They can do such pretty things. And nothing is quite so powerful and quite so necessary to keep under wraps. Put all your fantasies into us sirens. Put all your nightmares into us witches. We come in threes because we embody the polyphony of one. Because we are your mother, lover, and child as we sing together. No wait. We’re just three women. We’re your wife. Being squeezed into a small picture frame, being weighed down with the tattered scraps of history, wanting to just sing songs and play instruments and not be constantly bothered with all this consistent-degradation-of-women-in-opera bullsh*t. Just wanting to hang out together and read this essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on the voice.“

Gelsey Bell performs her WIFE on Sunday April 12th for Tangent: Trio with Kjersti Kveli and Megan Schubert

Video: Megan Schubert performing Peter Hartman’s Young Girl In Pursuit of Lorca with Emily Manzo on piano

“Even American TV kid-show host, Mr. Rogers, reminded the world that it’s OK to be mad (while speaking in front of the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications in 1969 no less).

I am not interested in feeling helpless as an artist, as a citizen. I’ll know if I’m “preaching to the choir”.”

“One woman's heart and soul can be heard in her vibrato. If you put your ear real close to her chest you can hear sound rumble in the tubes, the paved roads of her insides. Her sour grapes and crazy talk, her offerings. In those fearless early mornings there are no secrets. You can hear her loud operatic voice, an angry choir girl, shouting out loud: "Here, take my song. Take my body. Take my heart!"

Kjersti Kveli performs her Oh Sour Grapes on Sunday April 12th for Tangent: Trio with Gelsey Bell and Megan Schubert