The Paris Opera: conclusions of the diversity report
Alexander Neef, the new director of the Paris Opera, presented the new diversity report at the Paris Opera on February 8, 2021.
AFP - JOEL SAGET
Text by: Carmen Lunsmann
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It's a long-awaited report, the one on diversity at the Paris Opera.
A few months after a manifesto drafted by black and mixed-race dancers and employees within the institution, the Paris Opera presented this Monday, February 8, the conclusions of this report.
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Open wide the doors of the Paris Opera to all singers and dancers, without looking at their skin color: this is the goal of the new director Alexander Neef.
From recruitment to directory, an investigation sifted through any discriminatory practice.
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It must be said first of all that this report is not the conclusion of a process,
affirms Alexander Neef,
it is the beginning of something which will probably never end, which will live with us.
Already, we must not think that diversity begins today with the publication of this report.
There are already singers in the lyric world who refuse to wear makeup.
What interests us is to find a ground where we can exchange more calmly, more freely on all these questions without controversy.
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Alexander Neef excludes any censorship or removal of works considered stereotypical or racist.
But he launches a reflection on the representation of these works by prohibiting once and for all the make-up of faces, appealing to more imagination.
Among the other avenues retained: the recruitment extended to overseas and the appointment of a “diversity and inclusion” project manager - a position only recently set up by the Metropolitan Opera in New York, proof that France is In the end, it is not so late in terms of diversity.
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