Name: Madama Butterfly
Start: 2014-03-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-04-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Sydney Harbour

Admin

Organization

Chanteur

Soprano

Hiromi Omura

Cio-Cio-San

Mariana Hong

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Yun

Suzuki

Ténor

Georgy Vasiliev

B.F. Pinkerton

Andeka Gorrotxategi

Baryton

Michael Honeyman

Sharpless

Barry Ryan

Graeme Macfarlane

Goro

Direction d'orchestre

Brian Castles-Onion

Mise en scène

Alex Ollé

Décors

Alfons Flores

Costumes

Lluc Castells

Lumières

Alexander Koppelmann

Basse

Gennadi Dubinsky

Lo zio Bonzo (Le Bonze)

Tony David Cray

Victoria Lambourn

Celeste Lazarenko

Kate Pinkerton

Sitiveni Talei

Le Prince Yamadori

Simon Meadows

Le commissaire Impérial

Adam Player

L'officier d'État-civil

Opera Australia

Orchestra

Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Others

Opera Australia Chorus

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Sydney

Australie

Sydney Harbour

B.F. Pinkerton arrives in Japan and inspects a house overlooking the harbour that he is leasing from the marriage broker, Goro. Goro has also found him a Japanese bride, Cio Cio San. It’s clearly a financial transaction rather than a love match but on their wedding night the stars come out, their eyes meet and magic happens. Butterfly considers herself married to him forever, but Pinkerton doesn’t have the same view of their union. Pinkerton returns to the US and finds a “real” American wife, while Butterfly waits with unshakeable faith for him to return to the house on the harbour. Three years later he does return to Japan - with his American wife - and is surprised to find Butterfly has borne him a son. Realising he has deserted her, Butterfly chooses death over a paradise lost.

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