Phèdre Featuring Liz Kiger Tuesday, September 15, 5:30 p.m. Join us for a screening and discussion with film maker, musician, and Goucher Alum Liz Kiger. Admission is free, but tickets are required. About the film Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society is proud to premiere Phèdre, a cinematic interpretation of Rameau's first opera Hippolyte et Aricie, released in August, 2026. Filmed on beaches, castles, & Victorian abodes, we tell the tragic Greek myth of Phèdre, wife of Thésée, cursed to love her stepson, Hippolyte, who has already fallen for a priestess of Goddess Diana. This production uses the magic of cinema to weave together the story using vignettes rather than a through-line plot, staying true to the dramatic progression of the original score, while incorporating musical numbers from Rameau’s various revisions. The dramatic color shifts allow the viewer to question whose lens they are seeing the narrative unfold through, humanizing villains and gods. Sung in French with English subtitles. About the producer Liz Kiger is a Turkish-American non-binary soprano vocalist, violinist, and opera director specializing in Baroque performance practice. They are the founder and director of the Brooklyn Telemann Chamber Society, one of the first primarily digital opera companies, focused on providing LGBTQIA emerging artists with opportunities reinterpreting Baroque operas as feature films, thereby bringing opera to new audiences through inclusion and accessibility. Their work with BTCS has been featured on numerous podcasts and most notably via @360ofopera and OperaWire.com. They are currently Director in Residence for NJ’s Opera Atlantic where they directed a fully staged scenes production for Fall 2025’s Tales for a Starry Night. In 2023-2024 they were in-production/post-production for the feature-length film Phèdre: Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie. They guest lectured at Yale University, Eastern Mennonite University, James Madison University, and Columbia on early music topics. Their vocals were featured in the Kravis Nightcap Series, a NY Philharmonic event, with Chromic Duo. Their cinematic version of Gluck’s Orfeo, released 2021, won Best Female Director and Best Narrative Feature at the Anatolian Film Awards in Istanbul, Turkey. Liz holds their M.M. in Classical Vocal Performance and a post graduate degree in Vocal Pedagogy from NYU. They received a B.A. in Music History and Vocal Performance from Goucher College.