English wine cask units the mediæval French and Italian "botte") or pipe was half a tun, or 1008 pints. Tradition has it that George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV of England, was drowned in a butt of malmsey on 18 February 1478. (However, Josephine Tey in "The Daughter of Time" suggests that "drowned in a butt of malmsey" means rather that George, Duke of Clarence, drank himself to death rather than literally drowning in a container of wine.) In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado", the narrator claims he has received "a pipe of what passes for Amontillado".
David Butt Philip the role of Pang in Puccini's "Turandot" in 2014, Servant in "Capriccio", Apparition of a Youth in "Die Frau Ohne Schatten" and Commissary in "Dialogues des Carmelites". He sang Rodolfo in "La Bohème" with English National Opera at the London Coliseum in Autumn 2014 and with English Touring Opera in Spring 2015. He sang Grigori in Boris Godunov at the Royal Opera House in March 2016 ("strikingly well sung" according to the Guardian), and will sing Pinkerton in "Madama Butterfly" with ENO in Summer 2016. Butt Philip is represented by the agency Ingpen and Williams. David Butt Philip David Butt