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From: Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com>
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Subject: Re: MT VOID, 04/11/25 -- Vol. 43, No. 41, Whole Number 2375
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2025 06:03:55 -0400
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On 4/15/25 2:43 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

> Unless the race of the character is part of the story, I don't
> see that it matters. Oddly, in Bridgerton (I only watched the
> first season), race is mentioned at least once.

Soprano Kathleen Battle has been noteworthy as Pamina in _The Magic 
Flute_. Because of a racial subplot, Pamina is supposed to be white, but 
no one really cares. In opera, physical suitability for the role doesn't 
matter. I've seen a singer who was well over 6 feet tall play a 
half-dwarf in Wagner. Heavily built women singing the leading part in 
_La Traviata_, a woman who's dying of tuberculosis, have become a 
standing joke. I recently heard of a production of _Fidelio_ where 
Leonore, who is a woman disguised as a man until the final scene, was 
played by a woman who was eight months pregnant.

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Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com