Soprano Angel Blue will not be making her debut at the Verona's Arena in Italy later this month after learning the theater used blackface during a production in 2002.
Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what clicked this week in entertainment.Soprano Angel Blue has announced she will not perform in an opera in Italy after the theater used blackface at a previous production.said she is pulling out of"La Traviata" at Verona's Arena after the Verdi opera"Aida" used blackface, which she described as an"archaic" theater practice that is"offensive, humiliating, and outright racist.
"Dear Friends, Family, and Opera Lovers, I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that I will not be singingFILE - Angel Blue performs during a rehearsal of "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" at the Metropolitan Opera, on Sept. 24, 2021, in New York. "As many of you know, Arena di Verona recently made the decision to utilize blackface makeup in a recent production of Aida," she added."Let me be perfectly clear: the use of blackface under any circumstances, artistic or otherwise, is a deeply misguided practice based on archaic theatrical traditions which have no place in modern society.""It is offensive, humiliating, and outright racist," she said.
American soprano Angel Blue and baritone Eric Owens perform at the final dress rehearsal prior to the premiere of the new Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera, and English National Opera co-production of George and Ira Gershwin's and DuBose and Dorothy Heyward's 'Porgy and Bess' at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, New York, New York, September 19, 2019.the role of Violetta.
Blue added:"I was so looking forward to making my house debut at Arena di Verona singing one of my favorite operas, but I cannot in good conscience associate myself with an institution which continues this practice. Thank you for your understanding, and to all who have shown support and sensitivity to me and my fellow artists of color."
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