Vera Starbuck
7:53 - 8:23
"We never wanted it to be inaccessible to anyone. We don't want it to feel inaccessible. Certainly everyone here is not the dress up in the ball gowns and go in your top hat kind of thing to the opera."
“We never wanted it to be inaccessible to anyone. We don't want it to feel inaccessible. Certainly everyone here is not the dress up in the ball gowns and go in your top hat kind of thing to the opera.”
- Speaker
- Vera Starbuck
- Timestamp
- 7:53 – 8:23
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Juneau
- Captured at
- August 28, 2026
From the transcript
We went to some of those, actually. When we were preparing for this, in the long time we've been preparing for this, for our Tlingit opera, we never wanted it to be inaccessible to anyone. We don't want it to feel inaccessible. Certainly everyone here is not the dress up in the ball gowns and go in your top hat kind of thing to the opera. Also, we're doing this in Tlingit haani, Of course we're going to make this the most accessible it can.
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