STetc ch36 petit opera theme

[Michael Bailey]

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Bruno's villa is apparently one of those party houses that everybody goes to and doesn't even know who owns it? And/or Praediger is so blitzed he doesn't even know Bruno is there, or came there knowing but forgot?


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Opera: introduced in Porfirio's conversation with Lady Bladesmith


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"Buenos Aires, perhaps, around the time of the coup?"
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Wikipedia: "Juan Perón did not lead or feature in a coup during the 1920s; his involvement in military coups began in the 1930s. Perón was a participant in the 1930 Argentine coup d'état, which overthrew President Hipólito Yrigoyen and established a military dictatorship led by General José Félix Uriburu."

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Perón eventually emerged supreme because his name was easier to pronounce and wasn't reminiscent of a mythological serpent?

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Teatro Colón https://teatrocolon.org.ar/


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Scarpia in "Tosca" is more of a Praediger, imho, but here, again with commensurate vagueness, Hicks conflates Bruno with him, not in an elaborate way, but solely to note that Bruno's nervous:
"One of the deeper lessons of grand opera for the working gumshoe..." (God I love these occasional omitted lessons in ST, a latter-day Proverbs for Paranoids)  "...that Boynt forgot to pass on to Hicks is that even the most villainous of bass-baritones may turn out to be a nervous soul trembling with anxiety for the high notes just a few bars ahead."