Tessitura
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Tessitura explores the entangled ways that voice, character and gender are continuously reformulated in opera by those who contend with these connections daily.
Directors Spotlight

Lydia Cornett
Director
Lydia Cornett is a filmmaker, composer, and artist. Her work explores the contours of labor, language and artistic expression across nonfiction and experimental forms.

Brit Fryer
Director
Brit Fryer is an artist and filmmaker from Chicago’s South Side, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His unique approach to nonfiction storytelling centers on gender and queerness through process-forward and collaborative methods. Through intimate character stories and curious social experiments, he explores the inherited and traded narratives of queer and trans individuals.
- Year
- 2025
- Runtime
- 18 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Director
- Lydia Cornett & Brit Fryer
- Producer
- Brit Fryer, Lydia Cornett
- Executive Producer
- Chris White, Jenni Wolfson, Kiyoko McCrae, Opal Bennett
- Co Producer
- American Documentary, Chicken & Egg Pictures
- Cast
- Breanna Sinclairé, Katherine Goforth, Lucas Bouk, Naomi André
- Cinematographer
- Sophia Feuer
- Editor
- Drew De Pinto
- Sound Design
- Micah Garrido
- Premiere
- Philadelphia