Hopscotch (film) describes bullets flying and even bombs exploding. There is also the aria "[[Largo al Factotum]]" from the opera [[The Barber of Seville]] by [[Gioachino Rossini]]. Matthau sings this as he passes a border checkpoint. The words to the aria explain how everyone is looking for the barber, and he moves fast like lightning. Kendig has the aria "[[Un bel dì vedremo|Un Bel Dì Vedremo]]" ("One Beautiful Day") from [[Madame Butterfly]] by [[Giacomo Puccini]] playing loudly on the stereo as the FBI and CIA shoot up Myerson's wife's house. The operatic contrapunto adds a surreal air of ironic justice to the
Julianna Di Giacomo Mathilde in Rossini's "Guillaume Tell" and portrayed Madame Lidoine in "Dialogues of the Carmelites" at the Pittsburgh Opera. In 2012 Di Giacomo made her first appearance with the Los Angeles Opera as Donna Anna to Ildebrando D'Arcangelo's Don Giovanni under conductor Placido Domingo. That same year she made her debut at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in the title role of Bellini's "Norma" and sang the title role in Giacomo Puccini's "Suor Angelica" at the Teatro Real in Madrid. In 2013 she made her debut at the Opéra-Comique as Rozenn in Édouard Lalo's "Le roi d'Ys". In 2014 Di Giacomo