After an eventful time in Bombay (Passepartout unintentionally causes offence in a temple), the pair manage to escape from Bombay on the...

Arriving on schedule in the Port of Suez on the steamer Mongolia, Phileas and Passepartout find themselves under close scrutiny by the...

As Phileas and Passepartout continue their journey from Paris to catch the steamer Mongolia to Suez, they arrive in Brindisi, a coastal town on the heel of Italy. This gives us an excuse to include in our program a well-known operatic tune composed by Giuseppe Verdi. It would be easy to think that the thoroughly Italian Verdi would refer to his home country in his operatic composition “La Traviata”. However, the story is set in Paris (in the 1850s), and Brindisi, the title o