Opera in Black and White

Don Juan for the #MeToo Age

Set design by Jan Verswejveld for the new Metropolitan Opera production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni by the Belgian stage director Ivo van Hove, as it looked at the Opéra National de Paris in 2019 (photo by Charles Duprat via Scenography Today).

I saw it at the Met last week, an opera I feel I really know but hadn’t in fact seen in quite a long time—there wa…