The Met recently submitted another eye-roll inducing entry for the Woke Olympics with their Women’s History Month slate.
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Suddenly in the middle of March 2019 the Metropolitan Opera realized that perhaps a few of the company’s multitudes of stagehands and technicians might be of the feminine persuasion.
Barihunk John Chest headlines San Francisco Opera’s Billy Budd in the fall of 2019.
Scribe/saxophonist Will Robin (not pictured) surveys some of the many women who are making opera these days.
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