this is jame manami at she's a met, so soprano and she taught us this a little bit earlier. have a listen to jane. she's talking about the effort that the world oper house went to, to be culturally appropriate in this current production of madame a butterfly. they spent a year consulting, lots of people. this is james reaction to i think this kind of cultural research is great and is definitely a step in the right direction. but unfortunately, the upper house are still using yellow face in the show. they're still using someone else's ethnicity as a costume. and that rings pretty tone deaf for me, considering that i look like what i look like and i can't take it off when i leave the theater. and the reality for people who look like me is that hate crimes against us have risen by over 300 percent since the start of the pandemic. and when i look at a production like this, what it feels like to me is that i've walked into a halloween party where every one has gotten dressed up in a bad racist costume. and there is absolutely no excuses for doing a production that looks like this