I posted some additional Butterfly trivia on the Well, where Jon Carroll hangs out:
- In Great Britain, Pinkerton is F.B. Pinkerton, not B. F. I believe this is because B.F. = bloody fool or something like that.
- The ship is called the Abramo Lincoln in the libretto.
- The opera was revised a couple of times before settling into the currently-performed version, but NY City Opera has performed the first version in a few seasons.
- The very first performance, in Brescia in 1906, was scandalous, because the soprano singing Cio-Cio-San, Rosina Storchio, was know to have had an affair and an out-of-wedlock child with Arturo Toscanini. So the appearance of Trouble in the last act resulted in cries of "Il piccolo Toscanini!" from the audience.
- A famous 20th century film and theater personage's first theatrical appearance was as Trouble. Who was this?
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Date: 2008-12-27 05:32 am (UTC)- In Great Britain, Pinkerton is F.B. Pinkerton, not B. F. I believe this is because B.F. = bloody fool or something like that.
- The ship is called the Abramo Lincoln in the libretto.
- The opera was revised a couple of times before settling into the currently-performed version, but NY City Opera has performed the first version in a few seasons.
- The very first performance, in Brescia in 1906, was scandalous, because the soprano singing Cio-Cio-San, Rosina Storchio, was know to have had an affair and an out-of-wedlock child with Arturo Toscanini. So the appearance of Trouble in the last act resulted in cries of "Il piccolo Toscanini!" from the audience.
- A famous 20th century film and theater personage's first theatrical appearance was as Trouble. Who was this?