Opera Non Grata

In Cleveland a performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado was called off.* Washington an opera company decided to go ahead with the show, but to explain in program notes that it depicts "the Japanese in the light that history now records -- sly, wily and deceitful, unconscionably corrupt and treacherous."

* So was the opera's run in Sydney, Australia.

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