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SUMMARY:Black experiences in opera: perspectives from South Africa, Europe, and the US
DESCRIPTION:Friday 21 August 2020, 11am EDT / 4pm BST / 5pm CEST\nHistorically, access for black talent has been strictly regulated in opera as an industry. Recent research has begun to examine critically the myriad victories of black talent at the highest levels and in the most public stories of diversification in opera (André 2018, Roos 2018). Until now these victories have been seen in isolation and always peripheral to the bulwark of white arts. But in recent months, the struggle for acceptance has been overtaken by an activist drive to share publically performers’ and industry members’ experiences of being black bodies in operatic spaces (@operaisracist). These narratives provide alternative perspectives on the often celebratory accounts of top-level artists’ introduction to and immersion in opera. Instead of allowing themselves to be co-opted into manageable narratives that continue to praise the black presence in opera as idiosyncratic, artists and practitioners are increasingly urging for a more honest and representative account of the quotidian experiences of black talent in opera.\nTalking points included:\n\n@operaisracist Instagram account, and similar recent interventions\nintersections between race and gender hierarchies in operatic activity\nthe hidden labour of black opera scenographers, choreographers, librettists, and other largely unacknowledged creative agents\nroutes to participation and empowerment\n\n \nThe event was recorded, watch it on Vimeo:\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://blackoperaresearch.net/events/black-experiences-in-opera-perspectives-from-south-africa-europe-and-the-us/
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