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Posted by:	stan 09:07 am EDT 03/16/14

The use of a live baby in "Doll's House" heightened the realism and made Nora's escape more compelling. In the Met's exciting "Madam Butterfly" a marionette is used for butterfly's young son -- it removed much of the poignancy of the sad, beautiful "humming" song interlude where she and her son are patiently waiting for Pinkerton to return. Later she has to hide her son from her suicide. Hide a puppet's eyes? The Mark Lamos City Opera (sigh) version more effectively used a real boy and (my) heartbreak was real.

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