The opening of Madama Butterfly at Mrs Macquarie’s Steps lured three conservative leaders out for the night.
AdvertisementIt is certain that no potentially unwelcome wokeness awaited the right-leaning warriors inClassic operas, with their plots full of what we now recognise as toxic masculinity, are kept from cancellation only by our willingness to enjoy them as beautiful pieces of music, whilst salvaging what poetry and wit we can from librettos that we must remember reflect the patriarchal social standards of the 18th- and 19th centuries in which they were written.
Pinkerton then abandons her, returning three years later with his white American wife to seize the child he fathered with Cio-Cio-San, prompting her to stab herself to death.Thankfully Friday night’s staging dialled right back on the Japanese romanticism of traditionals. The relatively spare set by Alfons Flores put more of our attention on the cruelty and misogynism of Pinkerton and his enablers - the ones who condescend to Cio-Cio-San as a “little doll” and boast of buying her “for a snip”.
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