Chicago Reader: I’m not a fan of opera’s (and literature’s) madwoman trope—that fearsome and pathetic figure historically sprung from some fevered male brain.
But Medea—based on Euripides’s version of the ancient Greek myth, composed by Luigi Cherubini in 1797, and the stunning opening production of this Lyric Opera season—has a fearsome resonance in our current, stranger-than-fiction moment.
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So I think the article said something super important about classic stories and their tendencies to perpetuate against women. We often see the mad woman trope come up in older pieces and I think this speaks to how women are both seen by men as well as how they were treated during the times. In terms of how women were seen, the lack of respect for women's autonomy when it comes to older pieces is super present especially when it comes to not valuing their opinions and thoughts. I also think that the mad woman Trope in Media is especially telling of how women and their psyches were affected by being forced into the home and valued only for their ability to reproduce. It's really cool to see how emotions that aren't normally seen in female characters are expressed, especially rage. This is also just a really fun show because as the Arthur says, it's spooky season and that's really fun.
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