Jason Scott Lee American men in Hollywood. Lee played Eddie in the 2007 sports comedy film "Balls of Fury", in his first theatrical release film since 2002. Lee performed as The King of Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The King and I" in a production at the London Palladium in 2000 opposite Elaine Paige. Lee made his operatic debut in the non-singing role of Pasha Selim in Hawaii Opera Theatre's production of Mozart's "Abduction from the Seraglio" at the Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu in February 2009. Lee was also to perform as The King of Siam in the 2014 Opera
Il caso Mortara season. Il caso Mortara Il caso Mortara (The Mortara Case) is an opera in two acts composed by Francesco Cilluffo to an Italian-language libretto by the composer himself, inspired by "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara" by David Kertzer. The opera was commissioned by the Dicapo Opera Theater, New York, and premiered in February 2010. It is the first Italian opera commissioned to an Italian composer by a New York opera company since the times of Giacomo Puccini at the Metropolitan Opera. "New York Times" critic Anthony Tommasini hailed it as one of the most important events of New York's 2010