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Lucha co-founder, Rita D’Albert says she felt Modesta was a natural fit for the show because she is in keeping with Lucha’s mandate to present the most innovative and unusual performers to a large audience of fans eager to discover exactly that.

“We’re a band of outsiders,” D’Albert says.

Her sole focus, D’Albert says, has been making sure the right artistic elements are in place for opening night.

The novel's confusions of gender were inspired by Shakespeare's As You Like It: a man, D'Albert, and his mistress, Rosette, both fall in love with a dashing cavalier named Théodore.

D'Albert left there before my time, and though I met him on his flying visits to Weimar, I generally think of him as I first saw him, seated at a piano on the concert platform.