Events running include an opera ('Veritable Michael') by Shadow Opera, a luncheon and exhibition tour at the Library of Birmingham, and campus museum tours of Winterbourne HG, The Barber Institute and @LapworthMuseum. 2/3

Great suggestions (as ever!) by Alternative Classical for opera highlights this autumn. Including Shadow Opera’s very own #VeritableMichael (#podcast opera), catch the live show again on 1 September in #Birmingham for #BAVS2022📚

Happy publication day to the stunning 'LGBT Victorians' by Simon Joyce. Take a dive into the queer archive @OUPHistory 📚

Thanks for the shout out Alternative Classical . Can’t wait to meet the members of this year’s BAVS

S/o British Association for Victorian Studies conf. 1-3rd Sept BAVS 2022 Don't forget to sign up to the free events running during BAVS 2022! 🚨

Shadow Opera Ana Parejo Vadillo @DrSarahParker What a brilliant evening!

The first of two celebrations of six new books about Michael Field. What a joyous and brilliant conversation! BAVS 2022 Shadow Opera Ana Parejo Vadillo @MarionThain @DrSarahParker @DrSarahParker @FDytor Princeton University Press #michaelfielddiary

This will be an amazing evening, operatic storytelling of Michael Field, not a man, but two women who were lovers and took the literary world by storm, until their true identity was discovered @MarionThain King's College London

Veritable Michael is an operatic telling of the true story of Michael Field - a brilliant, Victorian poet who was hiding a secret with Shadow Opera Fri, 11 November 2022, 18:30 – 20:00 King's College London College Chapel, Strand Book your ticket 👇eventbrite.co.uk/e/veritable-mi…

🎼🎭A new opera is coming to King's 🎭🎼 Based on secrets of playwright & poet Michael Field, Shadow Opera have created 'Veritable Michael' 🎶. Hear composer Tom Floyd, singer Sophie Goldrick, & King's Prof @MarionThain discuss the opera on BBC Radio 3 ➡️ bbc.in/3UfqRYp

The opera is inspired by Prof Marion Thain's research of the intriguing story of the two women who lived, loved and wrote as Michael Field. 🎧 Listen 👇 to Prof Thain explain the significance of Michael Field's name. 🎧 King's Arts & Humanities

'Veritable Michael' is being performed at King's Chapel, produced by King's Culture & supported by King's Prof Sally Marlow (Professor Sally Marlow Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience). 🗓️ 11 November ⏰ 6.30 pm 🎟️ Free, find them through the link 👇 bit.ly/3Nueh5f

In the spectacular chapel King's College London for Michael Field opera Veritable Michael Shadow Opera

Shadow Opera's Veritable Michael is about to start, and quite the setting in King's College Chapel. A space worthy of Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper, no less...

We were delighted to host an operatic telling of Veritable Michael by Shadow Opera, followed by a discussion with Marion Thain, Professor of Literature and Culture, and Sophie Goldrick and Tom Floyd. Find out more👇 kcl.ac.uk/news/the-poet-…

New blog! Michael Field were ahead of their time in being behind the times in an age of industrialisation. Queer, esoteric, archaic… Decadent? Tom Floyd, Sophie Goldrick & Marion Thain tell us more in contextualising Shadow Opera’s Veritable Michael stagingdecadence.com/blog/veritable…