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MA's Free Guide to Free Streams: June 29 to July 6
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Monday, June 29
12 pm ET: Vienna Staatsoper streams Verdi’s Rigoletto (Performance of January 28, 2016). Conductor: Evelino Pidò, director: Pierre Audi, with Juan Diego Flórez (Der Herzog von Mantua), Carlos Álvarez (Rigoletto), Olga Peretyatko (Gilda), Ain Anger (Sparafucile), Nadia Krasteva (Maddalena). Sign up for free and view here.
1 pm ET: The Greene Space presents Note-able Women: A Celebration of Women Composers. Watch an encore video stream o
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Is the Sport World Lastly Burying ‘Blackface’?
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Is the entertainment world finally burying blackface?
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600"] Aleksandrs Antonenko in the title role of Otello[/caption]
The end of blackface at the Met comes after the murder of nine innocent parishioners in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, the deaths several African Americans at the hands of white police officers and the removal of the Confederate flag in front of the South Carolina statehouse. And now the blackface makeup kits have been tossed into the garbage can at the Met.
Hopefully, an era has ended.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="600"] Aleksandrs Antonenko in the title role of Otello[/caption]
The history of blackface in American entertainment goes all the way back to the 1840s, when traveling minstrel shows became popular. The shows used all white casts. The singers would don blackface (burnt cork, greasepaint or shoe polish) and then appropriate (a wonderful word for steal) African-American songs and dances for their white show. The men would then dance across the stage, white bodies, black faces and white gloves on their now black hands (many wore wooly black wigs, too). Audiences in the 1840s, and for decades after, loved it. The movies did th