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Madama Butterfly trailer

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Channel: Opera North · 2011 · Entertainment

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This touching story of innocent love crushed amidst two utterly different cultures resonates as strongly as ever in today's world. This exquisite production, with its beautiful set and costumes, intensifies the emotion in an already heartbreaking opera.


"Opera North's terrific new Madama Butterfly reduced me to jelly and forcefully reminded me that this is a work of consummate theatrical genius -- Puccini's masterpiece, and one of the defining artworks of the 20th century."
Daily Telegraph
 
". . . this is intelligent, disturbing music theatre that gets closer to the dark heart of Puccini's opera..."
The Guardian (4 stars)
 
"Anne-Sophie Duprels offers a magnificently convincing interpretation of Butterfly...[her] singing blazes with more and more passion as the evening progresses..."
The Times (4 stars)

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