Organization

Stage director

Shane Placentino

Singer

Bass

David Parkin

Uncle Bonze

Soprano

Sae Kyung Rim

Cio-Cio-San

Baritone

Michael Honeyman

Sharpless

Luke Gabbedy

Tenor

Virgilio Marino

Goro

Kiran Rajasingam

Prince Yamadori

Mezzo-soprano

Jane Ede

Kate Pinkerton

Alexander Hargreaves

The imperial commissioner

Gregory Brown

The official registrar

Graeme Murphy

Conductor

Carlo Montanaro

Lighting designer

Damien Cooper

Costume designer

Jennifer Irwin

Set designer

Michael Scott-Mitchell

Video designer

Sean Nieuwenhuis

Sian Sharp

Suzuki

Diego Torre

B.F. Pinkerton

Opera Australia

Others

Opera Australia Chorus

Orchestra

Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Italian

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Sydney City

Australia

Sydney Opera House

Madama Butterfly Puccini

Public

Madame Butterfly

English

Approved

Enchanted by the mysteries of Japan, American naval officer Pinkerton takes a beautiful young geisha for his wife, then callously departs the shores of her h...

Fluttering beauty, caught and pinned for his pleasure, bound, yet beautiful still.
Constrained, cocooned, caught in a moment of desire, Butterfly is incandescent. In her exotic embrace, Pinkerton finds paradise, then carelessly condemns his bride to purgatory.

Graeme Murphy’s arresting production of Madama Butterfly takes a contemporary look at Puccini’s alluring heroine using a towering digital set.

Fragments of film flutter across the stage, creating a dynamic backdrop for Murphy’s vision of Butterfly. He draws on his roots in choreography to capture the grace and gravity of a story that begins in rapturous love and ends in the cruellest heartbreak.

Puccini’s sublime music imbues this ageless story with impossible beauty, from the irrepressible famous aria ‘One fine day’ to the intense finale.

South Korean soprano Sae Kyung Rim’s voice is in demand the world over and her Butterfly is richly nuanced. Diego Torre gives Pinkerton complexity and depth through his exemplary technique and timbre. Carlo Montanaro conducts.

Madame Butterfly by Puccini, From (2022/2022), Directed by Shane Placentino, Graeme Murphy,, Conductor Carlo Montanaro, Sydney Opera House, Sydney City, Australia

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