"So the plot of the Marriage of Figaro," says ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ghost_lingering during the intermission between the second and third acts, "Is that the CEO has supposedly implemented a new sexual harassment policy, and he wants cookies for having done it, but he doesn't think he actually has to follow it."
"Yes. That is it. That is exactly the plot," I replied.
"I think I would like Cherubino less if he were sung by a tenor, but because he was sung by a mezzo I kept thinking of him as a lesbian, and I liked him that way," she later added, concluding that between Cherubino and Figaro this was in fact the first opera she'd ever seen where she didn't hate all the male characters.
ghost_lingering during the intermission between the second and third acts, "Is that the CEO has supposedly implemented a new sexual harassment policy, and he wants cookies for having done it, but he doesn't think he actually has to follow it." "Yes. That is it. That is exactly the plot," I replied.
"I think I would like Cherubino less if he were sung by a tenor, but because he was sung by a mezzo I kept thinking of him as a lesbian, and I liked him that way," she later added, concluding that between Cherubino and Figaro this was in fact the first opera she'd ever seen where she didn't hate all the male characters.