Wednesday 26 November 2008. 07:30 PMSaturday 29 November 2008. 01:00 PMThursday 04 December 2008. 07:30 PMSaturday 06 December 2008. 07:30 PMTuesday 09 December 2008. 07:30 PMSaturday 13 December 2008. 07:30 PM
Opera Australia's Oz Opera is proud to announce a new production of one of the world's favourite operas, Madame Butterfly, directed by one of Australia's most influential actors and directors, John Bell. Puccini's moving tale is set in 1946 in the historic city of Nagasaki. Cio-Cio San, a fifteen year old Geisha girl, is married off to Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the victorious American navy. They fall in love, instantly, but when it is time for Pinkerton to go back home, he discards his fragile Butterfly. And so, caught between two worlds, the old and the new, Madame Butterfly waits. One fine day, she knows, he will return...
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