Anna Netrebko goes brownface in Met’s Aida

Anna Netrebko goes brownface in Met’s Aida

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norman lebrecht

September 20, 2018

The soprano has posted pictures from the general rehearsal and it looks like the dressing room has got too busy with the slap.

She is not so much Egyptian, or even Ethiopian, in this shade of makeup as downright Nubian.

 

Any other singer, in any other dark-skin role, and there would be cries of cultural misappropriation.

 

Hello from Metropolitan opera Aida!

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