Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera have announced their 2020-2021 seasons, and the OBS guys are happy to declare that progress is being made… But first, classical music’s racial diversity problem. It’s an evergreen topic on OBS, but two articles published this month shed light on the striking lack of Black and Latinx people on the stages and in the audiences of America’s elite performance venues... In the ‘Two Minute Drill’, Anna Netrebko gets an award (and some criticism) and Javier Camarena gets yet another encore...

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