this is jane manami. she's a met, so soprano and she told us this a little bit earlier. haven't listened to jane. just talking about the effort that the role opera house went to to be culturally appropriate in this current production of madame a butterfly, they spent a year consulting looks to people. this is james reaction to i think this kind of cultural research is great. and instantly 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 ethnic city 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. 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 in 2