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...Americans’ right to do as they pleased in a conquered country.” One can forgive certain inklings of ressentiment.“The Mikado” is certainly not alone in terms of context-specific variance. Giacomo Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” met with diverse reactions between Eastern and Western audiences—while wildly successful at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1907, it met with some confusion by Japanese audiences, who sometimes did not know what to make of Western tonalities. Rodger and Hammerstein?...
...after another, models in geisha makeup and with orchids and ikebana arrangements caught up in their hair emerged in glorious confections that recalled hand-painted kimonos, origami folds and even the bark of a bonsai tree. Backstage, the designer described the show as Christian Dior meeting Puccini's Madama Butterfly...
...films Titus, Frida and the forthcoming Beatles pastiche Across the Universe ? has condensed her zazzy Zauberflote, which premiered at the Met in 2004, into a 100min., kid-friendly Magic Flute. And Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain, the current Breaking and Entering) did a rapturously received Madama Butterfly this fall. Gelb has also hired Broadway directors ? Jack O'Brien, of Hairspray fame, and Bartlett Sher, who did The Light in the Piazza, to stage operas...
...Later in the day, after a stop at the U.S. Embassy and changing into a pink suit, the First Lady went in her black Cadillac limousine - with District of Columbia plates, but not the hood flags that adorn the President's limousine - to the 16th Century Villa Madama for a leisurely lunch with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. During the photo session, the notably bronzed Berlusconi sucked in his midriff. Then he and Mrs. Bush went into lunch and the press milled about before being taken to a room with casserole, Coke and a few electrical outlets...
...Peter Watkins of Mrs. Bush's staff pointed out: "This is like the movie 'The Italian Job,' only in a bus!" In the end, the genius in the Taurus had taken us on a shortcut and actually beat Mrs. Bush to the Villa Madama. And the Olympics don't even open until tomorrow...