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'Opera Can Feel Like a Colonialist Art Form'
The opera art form can often feel very Eurocentric and exclusionary because of its history and even the way it is traditionally performed. Yuval Sharon, Jehnean Washington and Michaela Tobin discuss how the opera “Sweet Land” is changing this dynamic.
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