Costa Concordia: the Opera
The next time someone asks if you know a great idea for a contemporary opera, you can say "yes."
On 13 January 2012, the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia, carrying 4,252 people, capsized and sank off the Tuscan island of Giglio.
Captain Francesco Schettino was arrested on 32 charges of manslaughter in connection with causing a shipwreck. He sailed too close to the shore.
This is the bit that hooked me.
[Captain] Schettino was widely ridiculed du…
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