Soprano Angel Blue says she won’t perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of a different work this summer on the same stage.
FILE - Angel Blue performs during a rehearsal of"Fire Shut Up in My Bones" at the Metropolitan Opera, on Sept. 24, 2021, in New York. . The U.S. singer posted a note on Instagram saying she will be bowing out of “La Traviata” at Verona's Arena this month because the theater recently mounted another Verdi opera, “Aida,” using blackface.
Angel Blue, however, was still listed Saturday on the Arena's website as singing the role of Violetta in "La Traviata” on July 22 and 30. The Arena this summer has mounted performances of “Aida” based on a 2002 staging of the opera classic by Italian director Franco Zeffirelli who died in 2019. That staging uses blackface.
She wrote that she couldn't “in good conscience associate myself with an institution which continues this practice.” "Every country has different roots, and their cultural and social structures developed along different historical and cultural paths,'' said the statement by the Arena of Verona Foundation. “Common convictions have often been reached only after years of dialogue and mutual understanding.”
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