character we are telling that should be important. # she wasn't wearing slacks...#. cecilia would like to be seen as a role model for black artists wanting to make it in opera. so, i think slowly, but surely, we are going to have more people of colour singing in these big houses, so i think it is going there, and i think there is a future for young women like me, black women, in opera. would you like to see centres of opera elsewhere in the world, in africa, for instance? yes, i know in south africa now it is getting, people now know about it, than when i started.