Director Lindy Hume has replaced the jolly old misogynists in cod pieces with men in suits in executive offices. NEIL MACKENZIE
Louis C.K. has returned to stand-up in New York, and Garrison Keillor is back on the road with a new show. Mario Batali has planned “several” return strategies, as has Charlie Rose. The President of the United States is still the President of the United States, and Brett Kavanaugh sits on the Supreme Court.
In short, the powerful men charged with sexual assault in the #MeToo era are doing just fine. Seattle Opera’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto is here to show us it was ever thus, and that it shall ever be so long as we continue to uphold longstanding social and political norms around consent, harassment, and male power.
