Arena Di Verona Addresses ‘Outright Racist’ Blackface Claim After Black Singer Quits Opera
American soprano Angel Blue performs an aria (‘Vissi d’arte,’ from Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Tosca’) at the eighth annual, season-opening concert in the Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series at Central Park SummerStage, in New York City on June 22, 2016. | Source: Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images / Getty An Italian amphitheater has spoken out after a blackface controversy…