to say
Difficult, since when the 15 white singers feel as an African American, they All play for over a year. 27. January 2018 Porgy and Bess “” at the Hungarian state Opera in Budapest Premiere. George Gershwin himself had decreed that his Opera about the life of African-Americans in the United States is allowed to be played in the 1870’s exclusively Black. To has during his lifetime he makeup Directors, who had offered white performers, black is prohibited to perform the work.
Szilveszter Okovacs, the intendant of the Staatsoper, it was no matter, in his staging of the play exclusively White. Since the rights holders now want to proceed in court, he submitted, as the piece was re-listed, all of the Actresses and actors a statement. Apparently, 15 of the 28 singers, signed the Letter, therefore, “afro-American origin, and awareness form an integral part of” their “identity”.
Close friend of Viktor Orbán
Now Szilveszter Okovacs as a close friend of Viktor Orbán. Orbán and his government, always trying to score points with xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism in their electorates. You refer to Hungary as the last bulwark against the “Invasion of barbaric migrant hordes” rushing against different coloured and celebrate the “ethnically-homogeneous community of the Magyars” as a nationalist, identitarian counter-proposal to the European individuality concept. And now Budapest singers should be singers suddenly African-American origin, and consciousness the course to grow?
In Hungarian media, it means that the artist had been subjected to massive pressure to sign. Okovacs himself said in an Interview that he knew nothing of the color of the skin of his employees. “In Hungary there are no skin colors-tab.” And as the magazine Index, sent him to the incident, the questions, and he answered with 22 questions, including: “Could life 15 non-white artists who would be suitable, at the Opera professionally, in today’s Hungary?” Sounds like a confession that the is actually hardly possible.
In the summer of 2018, the Opera was already in the headlines. At the time, Billy Elliot has been taken from the game plan, because reactionary groups had warned that the piece could entice young viewers to homosexuality.
(Tages-Anzeiger)
Created: 11.04.2019, 10:29 PM
