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Reina Brigette Takeuchi

A section from the score of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly

Not Your Miss or Madame: A Three-Act Meditation on Love, Opera and Friendship

Reina Brigette Takeuchi & Lucia Tường Vy Nguyễn, Going Down Swinging, December 2021

Women, slaves, lower classes, and migrants, while siphoned by their masters into the lowermost foundations of Western society, 'in many ways...provide one of the richest archives of friendship practices throughout history'...Friendship proved a necessary salve for the violence of labour and unnaming, and a means of survival, solidarity, and secret-keeping. The name that your master discarded was salvaged by your friends.

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