What morons. Putting on “blackface” or “whitewash” is a way to AVOID practicing discrimination. Black singers can sing white roles, and white singers can sing black roles.
Geez, PC comes to Opera. Disgusts me.
If actors start pretending to be something they’re not, where will it end...uh, wait.
I don’t know how many black singers can sing Otello, actually. Which is why we have white/Hispanic (Domingo) singers generally playing it. And, after all, it was written in the 19th century before all this pc nonsense. Many white actors/singers play this role as an Arab with a light darkening of skin. Moors being from Arabia, of course, being the excuse.