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It’s official: in the Met’s new production of Otello, Aleksandrs Antonenko “will not use blackface makeup… breaking with a performance tradition of more than a century.” [New York Times]

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It's official: in the Met's new production of Otello, Aleksandrs Antonenko "will not use blackface makeup… breaking with a performance tradition of more than a century."