Sour note over SA singers' poor pay

It has already raised eyebrows for its portrayal of Africans subjected to brutality by fascist troops. Critics questioned the taste of including scenes of rape and racial abuse by Mussolini's soldiers during Italy's 1930s subjugation of Eritrea in a much-loved 18th-century opera.But the South African production of Mozart's masterpiece Cosi Fan Tutte ran into further trouble when the opera went to France and 12 black singers employed by Cape Town Opera learned that they were being paid significa...