Hiromi Omura / Recensioner

Portland Opera’s production is a tasteful presentation that, while not confronting the opera’s thornier issues head-on, allows the beauty in the work to shine through by mitigating the more problematic elements of the piece. [...] Pinkerton is played by Luis Chapa, who gives the character the appropriate levels of callowness and coarseness.

The opera Madama Butterfly will boast a giant sun, 20 metres in diameter, rising out of Sydney Harbour, as well as a large moon for a night of passion.