Plot Summary:This experimental opera reenacts the lesser-known history of Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong, and his lover Magnus Hirschfeld, a much older German sexologist and gay rights pioneer during Nazi Germany.
In 1933, Li Shiu Tong and his lover, Berlin gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfield, were forced into exile, fleeing the Nazis. Death Mask is an original short opera about Li’s last day on earth in Vancouver, 60 years later.