Is it OK when an opera singer tries to look a bit Egyptian when singing Aida?

Here is the case:

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American opera singer Angel Blue has cancelled her debut with Arena di Verona in protest at soprano Anna Netrebko's (pictured above) Blackface makeup in the Italian company’s production of Verdi’s Aida.

Blue was due to take on the role of Violetta in Arena di Verona’s production of La Traviata, opening today, but after seeing images shared on Netrebko’s Instagram page, she took to Facebook to express her outrage at the ‘deeply misguided practice based on archaic theatrical traditions which have no place in modern society’.

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https://www.classical-music.com/news/sop...ckface-scandal/

I also think it is OK.

In the US many think it not OK.

Here is some info about the Zwarte Piet case:

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In the Dutch Santa Claus tradition, the beloved Sinterklaas is accompanied on his annual rounds by his equally beloved bogeyman, Zwarte Piet, or “Black Pete.” Since the 1980s, Piet, whose role in this tradition can be traced back centuries, has become a perennial target of protests and public demonstrations charging that his blackface makeup makes him a racist symbol. Some protests have resulted in police arrests. In one notable case, an unsuccessful legal suit against the mayor of Amsterdam aimed at banning Zwarte Piet’s part in the city’s annual Sinterklaas parade.


This rising criticism has grown apace with a sharp increase in the black population in the Netherlands since the 1970s, when its former colony Surinam became independent. Subsequently, the total black population in the country’s seventeen million has risen to half a million, including the Caribbean islands that are still part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Meanwhile, polls taken regularly show well over a majority of the Netherlands’ population favors preserving the Sinterklaas tradition without changes. This majority insists that Piet’s arguably racist traits are harmless fun, and that those daring to break their societal taboo against accusing the Dutch of racism are themselves behaving in a racist fashion by even raising the question.


It is particularly striking to encounter this cultural standoff in a country with a distinguished reputation as a leading promoter of humanism, liberalism, pluralism, and tolerance. As early as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, over 200,000 Flemings and French Huguenots, and several thousand Jews from Spain and Portugal, all fleeing religious persecution settled there. The small group of English Pilgrims who made their way to America in the early part of that century to found the historic Plymouth Colony had lain over in the Netherlands for over a decade. To the present day, the Netherlands has remained a welcoming destination for refugees and asylum seekers from around the world.

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https://www.americanacademy.de/attacking-zwarte-piet/


The 2 cases are somehow related.

Somewhere I have read that this Angel Blue has been performing once with a white make-up.
So we could reproach her of "white-facing" - if we were as fanatical as she is.