COVID-19 and the Opportunity for a Gender Parity Reset and More
The Metropolitan Opera, one of the largest performing arts institutions in the United States, just announced that it will remain closed until September 2021. They also announced that they will reopen with a new opera by a Black composer, the first Black composer in the organization’s 140-year history. Opera, Broadway, dance, and theater-makers are taking the long overdue and necessary steps for the changes needed in the industry in terms of the LGBTQ community, sexism, and racism both behind and in front of and the curtain. I don’t want to be insensitive to those theater-makers experiencing hardships, but the COVID-19 shutdown has given us an opportunity for a global reset.
