Madama Butterfly on a battleship
OperaItaly’s only aircraft carrier, the Giuseppe Garibaldi, is planning to stage an opera on deck.
Singers will make their entrance by helicopter.
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Must be desperate!
For what?
Authenticity isn’t the issue here, but it should be renamed the battleship Abraham Lincoln – Pinkerton’s ship, as stated in the libretto!
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.
So if they want to do an encore, they could do the Stockhausen quartet since they will already have the helicopters….
I’m waiting for a battleship in “Il Trovatore” a la The Marx Brothers “A Night at the Opera”
Il Trovatore was the original opera to be set on a battleship.
Battleships and aircraft carriers are different categories of warship.
Looks like this Cio-Cio-San has outgunned Mrs. Pinkerton for a change.
It WAS the only one, until the aircraft carrier Cavour, flagship of the Italian fleet, was launched in 2009. 😉
Please, on all that is holy, make this stop…..