Soprano Julie Fuchs was asked to leave an opera cast because her pregnancy would ‘compromise its artistic integrity’. Why are companies not looking at different kind of compromises?
Four days before rehearsals were set to begin for the Hamburg State Opera’s production of The Magic Flute, soprano Julie Fuchs received surprising news from her employers: she would no longer be allowed to perform the part of Pamina because to do so would “compromise the production’s artistic integrity”. The crux of the theatre’s concern was that staging would have to be altered because Fuchs was pregnant. She was set to be four months along on opening night.
“As you can imagine, I am very disappointed as I am feeling vocally and physically in top form,” Fuchs wrote in a Facebook post last month announcing her dismissal. That post has since been seen thousands of times, setting off a media firestorm within the classical music world and prompting hundreds of comments from women who have encountered similar treatment. In the process, it’s helped spark a broader conversation about the unique challenges faced by parents and parents-to-be in the performing arts – and their acute vulnerability to workplace discrimination.
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