ACT I
He’d never been to the opera, and I’d never been to the opera alone. Actually, I had never been to the opera without my father, and I was pretending to still be in love with my boyfriend even though I knew that I wasn’t, so I took him as my date. We’d almost broken up, taken a break, ended the break, broken up, and gotten back together within the span of two months, our ups-and-downs near-Verdian in their melodrama. The opera was “Rigoletto.” At the Met, Bartlett Sher’s production, set in the Weimar Republic, starred Quinn Kelsey and Rosa Feola, who sang their father-daughter duets against an Art Deco backdrop.