LE FIGARO. - The English Touring Opera (ETO), a company that brings together independent musicians and tours across the UK to promote access to opera, will not renew the contracts of 14 of its white musicians, while by recognizing their skills, in order to achieve “greater diversity in the orchestra
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. As a professional violinist, how do you see this decision?
Zhang ZHANG. -
No discrimination is positive.
In the name of progress, we justify injustices.
Due to their ethnicity, artists from the English Touring Opera, some of whom have been part of this ensemble for 20 years, have been told that they will no longer have a job.
This decision has nothing to do with music, it is purely ideological.
It is all the more shocking and cruel that the performing arts world is only coming back to life after a year of shutdown due to the global pandemic.
It also means that careers go
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