Lina Bruna Rasa Never Sang at the Met. The Reasons Are a Mirror for the House.

Parterre is revisiting why soprano Lina Bruna Rasa, one of the defining Italian voices of the 1930s, never appeared at the Metropolitan Opera. The answer is not about her voice. It never is, in these cases. The institutional and political machinery that kept certain artists out of the Met's roster is a story the house has never fully reckoned with.