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In [[Puttanesca Rigatoni]]'s exquisite | In [[Puttanesca Rigatoni]]'s exquisite tragicomic opera ''[[La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza]]''<ref>''[[The Victory of Substance over Form]]''<>, argumentative Venetian merchant [[Don Iolio Contrario]] is employed as an operations manager in his father [[Don Figaro Contrario]]'s struggling spice brokerage, where he meets, falls in love with an enchanting and gifted young brokeress [[Iolande Impulsivia]] . His father is obsessed with cost control, and has invested in a homunculus, a steam-powered computation machine which will take over the role of the brokers. | ||
Don Figaro, a vain and stupid man who cares mainly about his legacy and reputation, is anxious to be seen as a great financial innovator. He is exasperated at his son for his errant, romantic, impractical ways. | Don Figaro, a vain and stupid man who cares mainly about his legacy and reputation, is anxious to be seen as a great financial innovator. He is exasperated at his son for his errant, romantic, impractical ways. | ||
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At the same time [[Don Iolio]], locked in his father's operations room, ineffectually rails against the stupidity of his father's fashionable ideas (his song is ''Il mondo ha una merda per i cervelli''<ref>The world has shit for brains</ref>). | At the same time [[Don Iolio]], locked in his father's operations room, ineffectually rails against the stupidity of his father's fashionable ideas (his song is ''Il mondo ha una merda per i cervelli''<ref>The world has shit for brains</ref>). | ||
Meantime the machine, without Iolande to prop it up, is a disaster and drives Don Figaro to the brink of ruin. Finally he comes to understand his folly (''O! Consulente di Gestione Scioccca!'' < | Meantime the machine, without Iolande to prop it up, is a disaster and drives Don Figaro to the brink of ruin. Finally he comes to understand his folly (''O! Consulente di Gestione Scioccca!'' <ref>"You foolish management consultant!" </ref> and sends out Don Figaro to find her, but she is floating face down in the canal at St Mark's Square. | ||
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*[[Substance and form]] | *[[Substance and form]] | ||
*[[Don Iolio Contrario]] | |||
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Revision as of 16:01, 23 December 2018
In Puttanesca Rigatoni's exquisite tragicomic opera La Vittoria della Forma sulla SostanzaCite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag, Iolande drifts aimlessly around the canals of Venice with her Iron Mountain box, pondering whether there is any future to her life at all.
At the same time Don Iolio, locked in his father's operations room, ineffectually rails against the stupidity of his father's fashionable ideas (his song is Il mondo ha una merda per i cervelli[1]).
Meantime the machine, without Iolande to prop it up, is a disaster and drives Don Figaro to the brink of ruin. Finally he comes to understand his folly (O! Consulente di Gestione Scioccca! [2] and sends out Don Figaro to find her, but she is floating face down in the canal at St Mark's Square.
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