It’s a Homophobic Slur. What’s It Doing in So Much Theater? “Prince Faggot,” “Figaro/Faggots” and other productions use the word to shock, provoke, reclaim it for gay men or all of the above. Does that make it OK?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1....2/01/theater/faggot-

Equal Parts Baroque and R&B, John Holiday Is His Own Singer Holiday, a countertenor, has forged a career that blends classical repertoire and his upbringing in church and pop music.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1....1/25/arts/music/john

Review: A Revolution Without Poetry in the Met Opera’s ‘Chénier’ Umberto Giordano’s tragedy of love undone by the French Revolution has returned, but as an evening of coarse music making.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1....1/25/arts/music/andr

Review: It’s Hard to Breathe in This ‘Walküre’ The singers did marvelous work at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, where the director Calixto Bieito’s new staging takes place in a hellish dystopia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1....1/30/arts/music/revi

It’s a Homophobic Slur. What’s It Doing in So Much Theater? “Prince Faggot,” “Figaro/Faggots” and other productions use the word to shock, provoke, reclaim it for gay men or all of the above. Does that make it OK?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1....2/01/theater/faggot-