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To: edweena
I'm planning to boycott Carmen and Marriage of Figaro because they were written in French and Italian instead of Spanish.

Ms. Blue must really lack a sense of irony because she failed to object to being cast as Violetta which is a racial affront to white French courtesans everywhere.

19 posted on 07/22/2022 1:10:22 AM PDT by stormhill
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To: stormhill

Bizet inadvertently stole the famous “Habanera” in “Carmen” from Yradier (a Spaniard), from Yradiers’ “El Arreglito”.

Carmen’s Habanera - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8GD63RuQduc
Yradiers Arreglito - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9l0e3M3Ek4c


28 posted on 07/22/2022 2:45:03 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: stormhill

No the point is that when they cast a black woman as Violetta, which is not infrequent, they don’t put her in whiteface. Nowadays as a rule, white performers in opera don’t do blackface either.


93 posted on 07/23/2022 12:39:02 AM PDT by edweena
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