Tue, Apr 21
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Desirée Mays & Mary Charlotte Domandi, Lili Elbe: Love, Art, and Otherness
Desirée Mays and Mary Charlotte Domandi will discuss "Lili Elbe", a new work by Tobias Picker at The Santa Fe Opera this summer. Named “Best World Premiere” at the 2024 Oper! Awards.
Date, Time & Location
Apr 21, 2026, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
Lili Elbe tells the true story of a Danish artist, his struggles with identity, culminating in one of the first gender-changing procedures as he, with his wife Gerda's support, becomes Lili, a woman.
Desirée Mays' career as an opera storyteller and speaker has taken her to leading opera houses worldwide: the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, and La Scala. Here she is known as the preview speaker for 20 years at The Santa Fe Opera. She is the author of the Opera Unveiled series of books. She has produced radio shows on the Arts for many years.
Mary Charlotte Domandi is an award-winning radio and podcast producer. For many years she produced the Santa Fe Radio Cafe on Santa Fe Public Radio, and since then has produced podcasts for the Santa Fe New Mexican, Arizona State University, and the Quivira Coalition, for whom she produces Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate Podcast, one of the top…