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

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Organization

Singer

Soprano

Hiromi Omura

Cio-Cio-San

Mariana Hong

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Yun

Suzuki

Tenor

Georgy Vasiliev

B.F. Pinkerton

Andeka Gorrotxategi

Baritone

Michael Honeyman

Sharpless

Barry Ryan

Graeme Macfarlane

Goro

Conductor

Brian Castles-Onion

Stage director

Alex Ollé

Set designer

Alfons Flores

Costume designer

Lluc Castells

Lighting designer

Alexander Koppelmann

Bass

Gennadi Dubinsky

Uncle Bonze

Sound designer

Tony David Cray

Victoria Lambourn

Celeste Lazarenko

Kate Pinkerton

Sitiveni Talei

Prince Yamadori

Simon Meadows

The imperial commissioner

Adam Player

The official registrar

Opera Australia

Orchestra

Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Others

Opera Australia Chorus

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Sydney City

Australia

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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