A paler white of shade

“That said, on the first night of his performance in Otello at the Teatro di San Carlo the previous week, there were boos. ‘They weren’t booing me,’ he clarifies. ‘I talked to many people afterwards who complained mostly because Otello is not black. And that was the director’s idea.”Let me get this right: they were booing the director because you’re white? Kaufmann nods.” [The Guardian]