Some Operas Are Changing Their Storylines, Following The Time’s Up Movement
Pictured above: Michael Fabiano
The Time’s Up movement is changing the landscape of the world by reshaping how we view sexual violence, and violence of all sorts. Now it’s reaching the opera world.
Tenor Michael Fabiano “resisted” orders to perform violent scenes. Fabiano — starring at the Metropolitan Opera in “La Bohème” — told the Telegraph of appearing in the violent “Rigoletto”: “In our era now of assault and harassment [of] women I think it’s a little in our faces . . . we can be more attentive to what exists in society, even when we create a production that’s set 500 years ago.”
Also, as Page Six reports, a new Italian production of “Carmen” shows the heroine shooting her lover rather than being stabbed to death by him, as written by Bizet around 1873.