![]() ![]() “Why does Venus have to be black? We’ve always known her as pink,” wrote one. ![]() The Neo-Nazi Reich Party fanned the flames, encouraging more than 200 objectors to lodge letters of protest. ![]() Outraged Wagner idolators called this first engagement of a black singer at the Wagner shrine a “cultural crime”. Grace Bumbry, who has died aged 86, was an American mezzo-soprano and later soprano who started her career at the top of the operatic world and remained there for more than 40 years she made her debut in Paris in 1960 singing Amneris in Verdi’s Aida and the following year was a controversial choice to sing Venus, the goddess of love, in Wagner’s Tannhäuser at Bayreuth, alongside Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Victoria de los Angeles. ![]()
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