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Casting of SF Opera’s ‘Figaro’ lays bare the racial fault lines in opera

Uncategorized Posted: October 22, 2019 8:56 pm

The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart’s buoyant operatic comedy, is built on an infrastructure of political discontent. Although it sheathes its claws in time for a happy ending, this is an opera whose treatment of political inequality and sexual predation can feel strikingly relevant. Is it also an opera about race relations? Could it be? – San Francisco Chronicle

Uncategorized Published: 10.23.19, sjm

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