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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. Coached by none other than Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor Ivan Magrì gives Pinkerton complexity and depth through his exemplary technique and timbre. His compatriot Carlo Montanaro conducts.
Conductor: Carlo Montanaro
Director: Graeme Murphy AO
Creative Associate: Janet Vernon AM
Revival Director: Shane Placentino
Cast:
CIO-CIO-SAN: Sae Kyung Rim
SUZUKI: Chanyang Choi
PINKERTON: Ivan Magrì
SHARPLESS: Michael Honeyman (until Jul 13), Luke Gabbedy (from Jul 16)
GORO: Virgilio Marino
YAMADORI: Kiran Rajasingam
KATE PINKERTON: Jane Ede
COMMISSIONER: Alexander Hargreaves
REGISTRAR: Gregory Brown
Opera Australia Chorus
Opera Australia Orchestra
2hrs 45min (inc interval)
June 29th, 2022
July 30th, 2022
Opera
Sydney Opera House, Joan Sutherland Theatre
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