# A #MeToo take on Don Giovanni **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-metoo-take-on-don-giovanni/822429 "2018-10-04T16:23:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-metoo-take-on-don-giovanni/822429/1 "2018-10-04T16:23:58Z")
[Opera Queensland](https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/don-giovanni-opera-needs-200-naked-women) are doing a new take on Don Giovanni and asking for 200 women who are willing to be naked or partly naked on stage. > [@](#): > > In light of the #MeToo movement, Opera Queensland, Australia, wants to change the ending to give Don Giovanni’s female victims more of a voice. > > Director Lindy Hume told ABC Australia: “As a female director and as a feminist and someone who loves Giovanni and the story, I wanted to frame it in a way that the women are on an even playing field and give him what for at the end. Sounds like an interesting take, but I’m not sure of the need for the women to be naked. I suppose it will make the scene more arresting, and, of course, garners extra publicity (cynical, moi?). I hope it turns out well. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-metoo-take-on-don-giovanni/822429/2 "2018-10-04T16:34:54Z")
In with the prophylactic eyeroll before the deluge of _“ugh naked opera singers they’re all fat”_ jokes. :rolleyes: Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-metoo-take-on-don-giovanni/822429/3 "2018-10-04T16:57:59Z")
Leave it to the Australians to support contemporary feminism and the Me Too movement by putting 200 mostly naked ladies up on stage. And anyone who says “ugh, fat ugly naked opera ladies” has never seen a good production of Richard Strauss’s **Salome.** ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-metoo-take-on-don-giovanni/822429/4 "2018-10-04T16:58:37Z")
I’m reminded somewhat by one of Shakespeare’s plays, Richard III, where all the people the villain has murdered come on near the end. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-metoo-take-on-don-giovanni/822429/5 "2018-10-04T17:51:09Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > I’m reminded somewhat by one of Shakespeare’s plays, Richard III, where all the people the villain has murdered come on near the end. Yeah, I think the visual of the slowly massing scores of victims/accusers/avenging Furies could be very powerful, and could resonate with a lot of contemporary experience (thinking of the [_New York_ magazine cover of the 35 seated Cosby accusers](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/07/27/35-bill-cosby-accusers-on-new-york-magazines-cover/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2e2ab6f74365) here). But, like you, not really sure what the nudity of the vengeful victims adds to the mix. Wouldn’t a character like Don Giovanni tend to react along the lines of _“Wow, here’s all my naked babes again! Hell’s gonna be more fun than I thought!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-metoo-take-on-don-giovanni/822429/6 "2018-10-04T18:11:58Z")
Next up - the addition of naked women to the Brazilian production of _The Barber of Seville_, where they subject the villain to an un-anesthetized waxing. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-metoo-take-on-don-giovanni/822429/7 "2018-10-04T18:15:27Z")
Er, **Shodan** , pretty much all cosmetic waxing (even genital waxing), both for men and women, is un-anesthetized. Seems a bit, um, anti-climactic as a dramatic operatic-type act of vengeance. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-metoo-take-on-don-giovanni/822429/8 "2018-10-04T19:11:50Z")
But this is opera - sometimes they need a little help to hit that high note. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-metoo-take-on-don-giovanni/822429/9 "2018-10-04T20:00:45Z")
Sometimes does more harm than good. See also: [“Oh God, who goosed the soprano?”](https://books.google.com/books?id=Z3bvx_T4Zu8C&pg=PA268) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-metoo-take-on-don-giovanni/822429/10 "2018-10-04T21:09:46Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > But this is opera - sometimes they need a little help to hit that high note. Hahahaha!