The North Carolina radio station that had planned not to air Metropolitan Opera broadcasts of seven contemporary operas because of their provocative subjects has backed off the decision.
The manager of WCPE, based in Wake Forest, NC, and broadcasting in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, had justified the ban because the operas “are written in a non-classical music style [and] have adult themes and language.”
Reversing the ban “was a very hard decision,” Emily Moss, the station’s music director, told The New York Times:
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