Madam Butterfly
- By:
- Giacomo Puccini, conducted by Edward Gardner
- Management:
- English National Opera with the Metropolitan Opera, New York and Lithuanian National Opera
- Cast:
- Judith Howath, Christine Rice, Bryan Hymel, Brian Mulligan, Michael Colvin, Richard Burkhard, Madeleine Shaw, Mark Richardson, Paul Napier-Burrows
- Director:
- Original director Anthony Minghella, rivival director Carolyn Choa (also choreography)
- Design:
- Michael Levine
- Lighting:
- Peter Mumford
- Costumes:
- Han Feng
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Search Amazon for Madam Butterfly items Search for tickets at TicketmasterAs a tribute to the late Anthony Minghella, English National Opera revives the film director's Madam Butterfly for the third time since its premiere only in 2005. Perhaps surprisingly, Minghella with his set designer Michael Levine resisted the temptation to recreate the opera's turn of the 20th-century Nagasaki setting with lovingly detailed Japonaiserie. Instead we have a proliferation of plain sliding panels, bold, single-coloured backdrops and sliding panels. An overhead floating mirror offers another angle on the events, sometimes a sense of distance, sometimes a hidden view, but rarely, in fact, much of significance...
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