From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   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   
      
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