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Posted by:	Chromolume 12:29 pm EDT 03/16/14
In reply to:	Babies on Stage - stan 09:07 am EDT 03/16/14

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. A lot of people (myself included) really liked the puppetry. (I wasn't sure I was going to like it, but it won me over.) But hey, we pick and choose the things on which we will and won't suspend disbelief. There are also plenty of people who wouldn't buy the fact that the singer playing Butterfly is always WAY older than 15, lol. To many of us, THAT doesn't matter so much. ;-)

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