Casting of SF Opera's 'Figaro' lays bare the racial fault lines in opera
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? " […]
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