Opera is about men hitting on women
mainThat’s what you’d think from Arte’s new season promo campaign, a co-pro with the Opera Platform website.
Think again, guys. Please.
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Such pics will draw a new audience to the production…. which is not without danger.
“Opera is about men hitting on women…
…That’s what you’d think from Arte’s new season promo campaign, …”
Well, if we go back to a thread and article from earlier this year, we don’t really need Arte’s new season promo campaign to think that.
https://slippedisc.com/2016/02/three-views-on-women-in-opera-one-radical/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/26/is-opera-the-most-misogynistic-art-form
“The director and the opera” might be an a appropriate title for this photograph.