[Zhang Fei]

Black opera singer quit because a white opera singer was playing the lead, an Ethiopian character, in Aida. The black babe was scheduled to play the lead, a white French character, in La Traviata, but that’s different because she’s black.

[bert]

Angel Blue is Black and spreading the racist propaganda

[exinnj]

Blue, black, white: WTF is wrong with all those colors?

[Albion Wilde]

The black babe was scheduled to play the lead, a white French character, in La Traviata, but that’s different because she’s black.

However, they are not making her wear whiteface. So she has a point.

[sphinx]

Opera is a white art form and Verdi was a white composer. How did the racial purity police ever allow a black gal into the field to begin with?

[TBP]

Exactly. And why was Angel Blue, a black woman, cast in the role of a whtie French woman in La Traviata? For teh same reason that Anna Netrebko was cast as an Ethiopian princess in Aida. It's about the music.

FTR, Anna Netrebko is one of the best sopranos in he world today and a lot of male opera fans have major crushes on Anya (as she's known) Not only is she a great talent, she's box office. Angel Blue is a very talented soprano also, though she hasn't developed the cachet that Netrebko has.

Also, Netrebko got essentially banned from the Met becuase, although she has condemend Russia's war against Ukraine, she has not specifically condemned Putin by name. (Remember, Anna's Russian. That would be dangerous.)

Now, they probably didn't need the blackface, any more than they need to put Angel Blue in whiteface. As I said above, it's about the music, your ability to sing it, and your acting chops. We've seen black singers and actresses in "white" roles before, and we've seen plenty of white sopranos sing Aida before. But it's no more worth withdrawing over than it would be worth withdrawing from La Traviata over Angel Blue.

[Born to Conserve]

I’ve never seen a black woman with blue eye makeup and a straight haired wig. (cough).

[Reno89519]

Idiot, now can sit at home unemployed and hopefully career limited.

[TBP]

Anna Netrebko

[TBP]

Angel Blue

[TBP]

And my newest and current opera crush, hte great Isabel Leonard

[Allegra]

I’d shrug and say “OK,” find a replacement or activate her understudy and move on with the show.

Enough with these attention-seeking SJWs.

[Midwesterner53]

So? Ask me if I care.

[left that other site]

“Angel Blue”?

Never heard of her.

“Anna Netrebko”?

Brilliant Artist.

[left that other site]

Violetta, the character in La Traviata, was a Courtesan. That is a fancy word for a Prostitute.

I submit that, in order for Angel Blue to effectively play that role without insulting women of the evening, that she provide proof that she is presently moonlighting in the world’s oldest profession.

In fact, I demand it.

[riri]

Maybe she'd feel more at home in an African opera...if such a thing ever existed.

[cuban leaf]

Get go broke. Goodbye woke person.

[sit-rep]

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