From: tppm@rr.ca.com   
      
   On 4/15/2025 3:03 AM, Gary McGath wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Famously the admonition "it ain't over till the fat lady sings"   
   references Brunhilde's final song in the Ring Saga.  In "reality"   
   Brunhilde, a Valkyrie and warrior maiden, would not have been fat, her   
   combined jobs having kept her in shape.   
      
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