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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas kept a flat at 27 rue de Fleurus in Paris, and the people who passed through it were busy rewriting what art was allowed to be. Picasso and Matisse arrive before anyone knows the names. Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek's opera, first staged in Saint Louis in 2014, keeps its attention on the two women rather than on their famous visitors, and on a partnership that lasted a lifetime. Presented by hinÓperan, a young Icelandic company working to put queer lives on the opera stage. Sung in English.