The Duke sings "Possente amor (A great love)" while swilling Scotch from a bottle (one verse only) and "La donna e mobile (Women are fickle)" while swinging around the stripper pole.
But the first two productions, a mediocre "La Traviata" and the New York premiere of "Prima Donna" (2009), a debut opera by the eccentric pop-music celebrity Rufus Wainwright both staged this month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music do not augur well for its artistic future.