Madame Butterfly

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Event Madame Butterfly
Venue Princess Theatre, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
First Date 23 August 2003
Last Date August 2003
Dates Estimated No
Status Pro-Am
World Premiere No
Description Director Elric Hooper, who has twice directed this opera, said he had chosen to draw on aspects of Japanese theatre to recreate Puccini's work. 'The hanimichi audience walk-way and kurogo black-clad stage hands, the use of symbolic artifices to portray love and death, could be most useful to tell afresh this universal story,' he said in a statement.
Primary Genre Music Theatre
Secondary Genre Opera
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Giacomo Puccini Composer
Tecwyn Evans Conductor
Allan Lees Designer
Elric Hooper Director
Emma Fraser Singer Kate Pinkerton
David Griffiths Singer The Bonze
Yi-Lin Hsu Singer Cio-Cio San
Bih-Yuh Lin Singer Suzuki
Brendon Mercer Singer Goro
Brandon Pou Singer Yamadori
Andrew Rees Singer Lt Pinkerton
Roger Wilson Singer Sharpless
Works
Text Nationality New Zealand
Production Nationality New Zealand
Further Information Chorus of 34 singers. Otago's first fully-professional opera.
Event Status Completed
Data Set Theatre Aotearoa
Event Identifier 190589