Just in: La Scala has its first non-white Violetta
mainSonya Yoncheva has cancelled La traviata on March 12, 14 and 17 (as one does).
Her replacement is Angel Blue.
We understand she is La Scala’s first Violetta of colour.
photo Sonya Garza
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And she is called Angel Blue! Her name alone sounds like the title of an opera, or at least a musical.
In the famous opera by Joey Green
All Violettas are “of colour” as you so quaintly put it, its just that they are DIFFERENT colours!
Violet is the color at the end of the visible light spectrum for humans, just below the Blue spectrum. Iām sure Ms. Blue can reach the Violet notes, or transpose them a little bit.
Funny, isn’t it, how if you don’t mention someone’s color, people tend to assume you’re talking about a white person š
Just like when you say “doctor” or “professor,” people tend to imagine someone male. It’s not even a sign of prejudice, it’s just a social norm — changing, but not all-the-way changed yet. Once you’ve seen enough female doctors or professors, you realize that when someone names those professions they could be talking about anyone. (I still see patients in my hospital who are surprised at having a female doctor, or a male nurse. And it’s not always old people, either.)
When you mention someone African-American achieving, you are remarking on a history of racism and continued marginalization and racial stigmatization from the dominate white society.
Besides the indigenous peoples, there are basically two types of people in the United States; voluntary and involuntary immigrants. Voluntary immigrants have a type of forever cognitive, social and political power African-Americans will never enjoy. African-Americanās are the only involuntary immigrants in the US. Brought as slaves, we were literally stripped; stripped of our culture, and religion. Languages were cut out of our mouths if spoken, and families were sold and raped apart. We were not considered human; our existence was written into the constitution. When you find your ancestors without birth certificates and listed as tax declarations along with the livestock, one should be quite proud to sing at La Scala. The US has never recovered from this complete disinvestment of humanity. Letās all applaud her as a wonder!
Intelligently expressed. Thank you. Just ignore the comment below; he probably didn’t make it through your first paragraph.
Not in Britain!
Wow, way to miss the point.
There’s missing the point, and there’s ducking to evade it…
Hi.
I recorded the two videos in February 2017 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in
Encinitas, California.
Kasondra Kazanjian is her name.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kevizian
there are pitch problems but she is very young (around 30 years old)
and will improve with the
guidance of a good voice teacher
http://i65.tinypic.com/28txkbt.jpg
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKj_2EctF1U
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Encinitas Library
“Ain’t It a Pretty Night”
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I found her on YouTube
Tatiana Carlos (maiden name Tatiana Nogueira)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ntkW-fiaM
Wonderful spinto voice. Gorgeous tone. She is Brazilian. Like a Rolls
Royce. She graduated in 2016 from a Brazilian music school. There are
issues with her loose vibrato. She is currently in Provo, Utah studying
for her master’s degree in vocal performance at Brigham Young
University. Tatiana is around 26/27 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2ntkW-fiaM
It’s how we are forced to express it in Britain so as not to offend those concerned. It’s how they, black and Asians, describe themselves in public so the rest of us of a different and white colour go along with it. It is not Quant but accepted as respectful.
I hope she puts on white face, just as white opera singers feel that need to put on black face when doing Aida or Otello, just to demonstrate how ridiculous the practice is.
Except, that ‘ridiculous’ practice has almost died out, hasn’t it. Netrebko’s Salzburg Aida was the outlier, and people were so shocked that there were countless articles about it (including on this site). How many other recent productions can you think of where somebody blacked up?
what a silly comment! Didn’t we have enough dark coloured Violetta’s yet?
Btw: did you know that Ms. Blue is Jewish too??
Otello is a Moor, so he is supposed to be dark skinned. What’s wrong with putting on makeup to look like the character you are playing? I don’t get it.
Karl, Otello is a berber, a “white moor”, or North-african. Their pigmentation is not any different from marrockians, algerians, egyptians, southern spaniards, greeks, cypriots or turks etc.
We are dealing with the very archaic outlook of the old “colonial world”, an outlook we know from “exotic” operas or theater works like not only Verdi’s and Rossini’s Otello, but also Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia, Meyerbeer’s L’ Africaine, or for that matter Delibes’ LakmĆ©, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Turandot and Sullivan’s Mikado. It’s a topic we have seen in absurdum on especially this page before.
The characters you mentioned just happen to be black. If you take away their blackness you pay them the greater insult. The black singers know the difference Your comment is offensive. Perhaps you should to talk to George Shirley about how he was forced to lighten his skin during his career.
Brava for Angel Blue! What a great break for her. The La Scala audience will not be disappointed. She will be a much better Violetta than the blowsy, out of tune Yoncheva.
I can’t wait to see her as Bess at the Met’s opening night next season.
Angel Blue continues to be an excellent performer, and it does not require falsehoods about Yoncheva to make that point.
It’s an opinion. He’s free to express it.
Free? I believe he’s even paid to express it.
Even better! š
Yes, an opinion but made so cheaply and unnecessarily by an armchair expert! If you can’t say it to the person’s face, then don’t say it!
Cheap and unnecessary = YOUR OPINION. Heed your own advice.
Miss Blue would have been wise to have followed the example of the great Miss Price, who insisted that her Met debut(1962?), not be Aida, but a role not stereotypical. If she could achieve such then, why can’t it be so today?
Miss Blue made her Met debut in 2017, as Mimi in La boheme.
She is really something!
I’ve heard her together with Domingo a few years ago and I knew: she is going to make it!
My review of her first album with SONGS-recital!
https://basiaconfuoco.com/2016/06/24/angel-blue/
I believe Sumi Jo already sung Violetta at Scalla before, if you are considering also Asians.
Congratulations to her. The first time I’d even heard of her (I’m not big on opera) was in this adorable video where kids meet her and ask her questions about her “occupation.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95RLviccrQc
What is the relevance of mentioning her race?
She is a singer (soprano) obviously qualified to sing at la Scala….