Madama Butterfly on a battleship

Madama Butterfly on a battleship

Opera

norman lebrecht

June 17, 2024

Italy’s only aircraft carrier, the Giuseppe Garibaldi, is planning to stage an opera on deck.

Singers will make their entrance by helicopter.

Read here.

Comments

  • Maria says:
    June 17, 2024 at 10:14 am

    Must be desperate!

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  • phf655 says:
    June 17, 2024 at 12:14 pm

    Authenticity isn’t the issue here, but it should be renamed the battleship Abraham Lincoln – Pinkerton’s ship, as stated in the libretto!

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  • chet says:
    June 17, 2024 at 1:51 pm

    Makes it a lot easier for Cio-Cio-San to spot her husband’s ship when it arrives at port, don’t have to sit there all day long singing about it, though not sure Pinkerton and wife #2 would appreciate it if they saw wife #1 waiting on an aircraft carrier with guns aiming at them.

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  • Sisko24 says:
    June 17, 2024 at 3:49 pm

    So if they want to do an encore, they could do the Stockhausen quartet since they will already have the helicopters….

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  • E Edwards says:
    June 17, 2024 at 3:56 pm

    I’m waiting for a battleship in “Il Trovatore” a la The Marx Brothers “A Night at the Opera”

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  • Herman Gottleib says:
    June 17, 2024 at 4:15 pm

    Il Trovatore was the original opera to be set on a battleship.

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  • P. Terry says:
    June 17, 2024 at 10:50 pm

    Battleships and aircraft carriers are different categories of warship.

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  • zandonai says:
    June 18, 2024 at 1:19 am

    Looks like this Cio-Cio-San has outgunned Mrs. Pinkerton for a change.

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  • Andrea Amarante says:
    June 18, 2024 at 6:55 am

    It WAS the only one, until the aircraft carrier Cavour, flagship of the Italian fleet, was launched in 2009. 😉

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  • Joseph Civitano says:
    June 18, 2024 at 5:47 pm

    Please, on all that is holy, make this stop…..

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