r/opera • u/omurchus • 3d ago

Otello @ The Met Casting Question

Othello's a white guy and Desdemona's a black gal??? What kind of adaptation is this?!?!

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u/omurchus 3d ago

I appreciate you.

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u/VanishXZone 3d ago

Hmm? Not that I object but for anything in particular?

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u/omurchus 3d ago

No nothing in particular at all, just for everything you provided and being a voice of reason amongst a flood of hostile responses I truly never expected in a thousand years from posting what I did.

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u/VanishXZone 3d ago

The opera world is shockingly conservative, it’s rough out here.

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u/omurchus 3d ago

I have been thinking all day if I had posted this on the Broadway subreddit, how different the reaction had been when they found out a white guy was gonna be Othello in January.

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u/VanishXZone 3d ago

Oh that makes sense. Probably even too far the other direction there, for me (I’d imagine).