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Open Forum: Why is aggressively racist Orientalist opera still a thing?
Miki Kaneda
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As news of the Atlanta shooting broke in March, and outraged responses from friends and family piled up in my inbox, I was listening to Puccini’s opera
Madama Butterfly. It wasn’t by choice. I was preparing a lecture on “Orientalist” operas for a music history survey course I teach. That, too, isn’t a choice for my students; knowing this material is a degree requirement for all music students at my university.
For those unfamiliar, Madama Butterfly is the story of a 15-year-old Japanese geisha named Cio-Cio-San. She marries an American naval officer named Pinkerton, who takes advantage of a law that allows him to temporarily marry her. Pinkerton returns to America shortly after their union. In her infantile innocence (musically represented by simplistic melodies that also symbolize the “Orient”) Cio-C