Soprano Angel Blue says she will not perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of a different work earlier on the same stage.The US singer posted a note on her Instagram page saying she will be bowing out of, La Traviata, at Verona’s Arena this month because the theatre recently mounted another Giuseppe Verdi opera, Aida, that had performers in blackface.She blasted such use of “archaic” theatrical practices as “offensive, humiliating, and outright racist”.
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