In 2020, Tanja Bage was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer growing behind her vocal cords. One week after diagnosis, her voice box was removed.

In this duet with soprano Lucy Crowe, Tanja explores fears of how losing her voice might change and limit her ability to be a “good” mother, the stigmas attached to being a woman with a laryngectomy, and how, a year into her recovery, she continues to express her identity using her new voice.