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...lasted an astonishing 34 seasons, dating back to the year Geraldine Farrar retired from the role. For the new production, General Manager Rudolf Bing suggested several European designers, including Cecil Beaton, but Patron Starr would have none of them, personally went to Japan and brought back two experts: Yoshio Aoyama of Tokyo's Kabukiza Theater as director and Stage Designer Motohiro Nagasaka for sets and costumes. Between them, they stripped Butterfly of all its sukiyaki-styled stage business, painted it in subdued colors ("to express inner harmonies and conflicts"), dressed the actors in gorgeously detailed costumes hand-sewn...
...kept, the onstage gong that signaled the wedding is out (gongs are sounded at Japanese funerals). Cio-Cio-San no longer punches holes in the shoji (paper screen) walls of the house to watch for Pinkerton's return-for the good reason that a shoji slides open. Director Aoyama has Cio-Cio-San bind her legs before her suicide to prevent exposing them ("Even dying, a lady stays elegant"). As for Puccini's music, Director Aoyama still feels it is out of character-Puccini's death theme is a Japanese drinking song-but he admits that...
...Aoyama Gakuin University...
...year-old student at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University was just plain bored: somehow, he decided, he would have to get rid of his tiresome prostitute sweetheart. And so, one day last fall, Kenjiro Yoshida invited her around to his dormitory and strangled her with a necktie. Three months later, police found her body under the dormitory floor...
...Aoyama Gakuin Methodist School, for the first time since the war, to pray and plan for the future of Christianity in Japan...