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Everyone’s favorite disingenuous alt-right music critic, Jay Nordlinger, explains that the real problem in opera today is not enough blackface.
“A few weeks after the opening night of Otello in New York, The Washington Post convened a group of African–American opera singers to discuss the issue.”
“In naïve, or pure, Camp, the essential element is seriousness, a seriousness that fails.”
On this day in 1833 Charles Darwin rode a horse to Buenos Aires.
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