A Director And Designer Resign Over Calgary Opera’s Plan To Cast A White Woman To Play A Tonkinese Role In ‘South Pacific’

Former Calgary Opera CEO Bob McPhee: “It’s an enormously sensitive topic, especially in the theatre world, and it is bleeding into the opera world. … So it’s not from a lack of wanting to be sensitive to the issue. I understand. But is there repertoire we stop doing if we can’t accomplish that goal?”