Resumen
With his chamber opera Elia (2004), composer Silvio Palmieri (1957-2018) is a
pioneer in the representation of homosexuality on the operatic stage: for the first
time in a québécois opera, gay characters express their condition and desire. In a
context where the representation of queer realities within the operatic genre is
increasingly common and explicit, this analysis examines the creative strategies
that allow Palmieri to express a homosexual desire in his work, highlighting the
dramatic and musical choices that contribute to the embodiment of this notion of
desire and, more broadly, the queer attributes of this artistic proposal.
