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Metropolitan Opera Drops Use of Blackface for Otello Productions by Robert Viagas

Tradition changes slowly at the venerable Metropolitan Opera in New York, but one long-overdue shift will occur this fall: Otello will no longer be performed with its leading character in blackface, according to the website Hyperallergic.com and NPR.com.

SOURCE: Playbill at 04:31PM on August 5, 2015

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