![]() ![]() Julian Chou-Lambert added that it was "not good enough" that out of six lead Chinese roles, just one is of ESEA descent. ![]() Opera folks, please learn about this and do better." It's offensive and dehumanising for ESEA people. Last Wednesday, one London-based composer accused the production of "yellow washing", explaining on Twitter: “It's like blackface, but applied to East and South-East Asian characters. The fact that most of the cast in Scottish Opera's production were white - with a notable exception that Nixon was played by African-American baritone Eric Greene - was barely remarked upon during the opera’s run last Spring. The production involves a chorus largely made up of singers playing Chinese communist party members, as well as key lead roles for performers playing Chinese politicians of the era. ![]() Inspired by the former American president Richard Nixon’s official visit to China in 1972, the opera was written by John Adams and premiered at the Houston Grand Opera in 1987. The independent judging panel for the South Bank Sky Arts Awards, which nominated the production for its opera award, has now hit back, doubling down on their support of the show and saying that they stand by its original nomination. With sell-out performances in Scotland last year and a host of four and five-star reviews, Scottish Opera's production of Nixon in China was described as "entrancing" and "gripping" by critics.īut the production has now, 16 months after it was actually on stage, become the centre of a "yellow face" row culminating in Scottish Opera withdrawing it from nomination for a prestigious award and issuing an apology for "inadvertently" causing offence. ![]()
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