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    Beyond black and yellowface

    Jun 24, 2022 3 minutes
    By Oliver Mears

    Madama Butterfly, a nasty story about an American naval officer’s seduction and subsequent abandonment of a 15-year-old Japanese geisha, is a problem for opera houses today, despite its immense and enduring popularity. Puccini, in his work premiered in 1904, did what the best opera composers do: craft the most potent of situations and collisions to wring maximum emotion from an audience, while writing music of unbearable feeling and drama.

    But in 2022, opera houses are nervous about programming the work and some are even cancelling productions of it. Concerned

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