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When Afton Battle resigned last week as head of Fort Worth Opera, the news caused a stir among opera leaders, musicians and patrons in North Texas and beyond.
Battle was one of the first Black women ever to lead a U.S. opera company. Her pledge, she said shortly after accepting the position in 2020, was to bolster Fort Worth Opera’s commitment to inclusivity and diversity.
“Y’all know the challenges of being black in this world,” she wrote in a June 30 post on Facebook. “Magnify that with being a woman running an arts organization in a conservative city and state.
As usual, it’s all about the woke activist and she’s the victim. MORE
I guess they heard the fat lady sing.
Twerking still not acceptable in the Tuxedo Crowd.
Those passions play in after midnight mansions.
To PBS she will go.
Doing Tosca with a Wakanda theme was the last straw.
I Guess “La boheme, Motherf***er” didn’t go over too well.
I also think like you. Although I tried very hard we become what we behold. But the result is not as expected.
Throw out the virtue signallers who hired her in the first place.
Can chickenshits work the baton – maybe the Ft. Worth Opera can do better than $80/hr.!
The opposite of Opera in Ft. Worth must be Grand Ol’ Oprey in Vienna.