Soprano Angel Blue says she won’t perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of another work this summer.
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.”
Still, the theater stressed its hope that her protest would ultimately improve understanding between cultures as well as educate Italian audiences.
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