White Porgy and Bess cast 'asked to say they identify as African-American' by Shaun Walker In Budapest

Hungarian singers allegedly signed paper to bypass stipulation of all-black cast The Hungarian State Opera has come up with a dubious way around a stipulation that George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess be performed by an all-black cast: it is allegedly asking its white, Hungarian singers to sign a paper saying they identify as African-American. The company first put on the opera a year ago, leading to a spat with th…

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