PARIS: Lives of former British Premier Margaret Thatcher and ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet have been turned into an opera due to open in Paris today for a five-night run.
“Allies” revolves around a televised 1999 meeting of the two late leaders when Pinochet was being held under house arrest in Britain.
An anonymous Argentine soldier conscripted in the 1982 war over the Falkland Islands, known as the Las Malvinas in Argentina, provides a counterpoint alongside two other characters — a Pinochet aide and Thatcher’s nurse. Thatcher remained a staunch defender of Pinochet for the rest of her life.
successfully argued that “mild dementia” prevented him from defending himself.
Thatcher died in April aged 87 following a stroke and a long battle with dementia.
“Allies” will also be performed in Rome and Strasbourg in October and at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines near Paris in January.
Thatcher, Pinochet get operatic treatment
