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The opera Madama Butterfly will boast a giant sun, 20 metres in diameter, rising out of Sydney Harbour, as well as a large moon for a night of passion. But it is the fake butterfly back tattoo that is the heaviest burden for its star soprano.
Tokyo-born Hiromi Omura, who performed the lead role of Cio-Cio-San at the Opera House in 2011 in Moffatt Oxenbould's 1997 production, admits she was anxious when director Alex Olle, of Spanish avant-garde company La Fura dels Baus, explained his modern take on Puccini's opera.
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He is 12. His scientist father is suddenly dead at 45. In the boy’s dreams, they meet and walk together through the city of Cambridge, where memories of life with his father are strongest. Until now, the boy thinks life is an entertainment system, designed to please him. He gets angry when the world malfunctions.
He goes to bed in his Melbourne home as early as 8 or 9pm, so that he can be with his father in those dreams. The waking hours are less enjoyable. It is shock. The sadness will come later, when he thinks himself the age of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, who too felt haunted with grief for a father.
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All Sorts: a love letter to Sydney, books and social media; all they are, all they could be ...
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