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...Toronto abounded with tales of innocence protected, propriety defiled. In the precise, grisly A Snake of June by Shinya Tsukamoto (renowned for his heavy-metal Tetsuo thrillers), a sensible career woman receives a package containing photos of her masturbating. The unknown photographer exploits her sensual sin by forcing her into ever-more provocative situations in Tokyo malls and subways. The moral: in a society where everything is recorded, only a saint could elude blackmail...
...established aesthetics of the house. Ask a European or an American fashion editor to name a fresh, up-and-coming Japanese face and you get only silence. A Japanese fashion editor will tell you which Japanese designers are showing - Junko Shimada, Atsuro Tsuyama and Yoshiki Hishinuma - but as Kaori Tsukamoto, fashion director for Vogue Japan, admitted in Paris: "I'm not going to those shows...
That brings me, unfortunately, to the great problem of Sunday night's performance. Tacko Tsukamoto is the prettiest Butterfly I have ever seen: she is slim, graceful, and really looks "just fifteen." All this is infinitely preferable to Renata Tebaldi lumbering about the stage in yards of flowered silk, but vocally, Miss Tsukamoto provided only the barest outlines of any kind of Butterfly at all. Her pleasant voice was often completely inaudible in low-lying or pianissimo passages, and only occasionally did she summon anything like the power necessary for Butterfly's big moments. A soprano who can sing...
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