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A striking African American woman with a big voice who dies too soon. Little did New York City Opera know when they cast Laquita Mitchell in the lead role of “La Traviata” (“The Fallen Woman”) the significance it would have on the company’s opening performance on Sunday afternoon at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Less than 24 hours after the death of…Whitney Houston, the color-blind casting of Violetta Valery…gave the 159-year old opera a jolt of relevance…

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    Not sure what that has to do with Whitney tho.. someone explain please?

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