![]() ![]() "It's for us to understand it and to bring to bear whatever it is that we can bring to the work. Larry Rivers, Madama Butterfly, from the portfolio Metropolitan Opera Fine Art Series, 1978, mixed planographic media on paper, Smithsonian American Art. "We are first-time opera makers, it's not for us to revolutionize opera," he explains. Minghella spent five years mulling over ideas for how he might make an opera, thinking about which opera to choose and how to adapt the skills he used in The English Patient and Cold Mountain to the opera stage. "We approached this production with as much humility as we ought to have had," Minghella says, "in the sense that singers are working all the time, and to be standing on the Met stage means. : Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera) : Patricia Racette, Maria Zifchak, Marcello Giordani, Dwayne Croft, Patrick Summers, Metropolitan. ![]() Minghella put together a remarkable team: set designer Michael Levine, costume designer Han Feng, puppeteers from London's Blind Summit Puppet Theatre, and Minghella's wife, choreographer Carolyn Choa. More information is available on the official website of the opera house. This is Madama Butterfly, one of Puccini's most famous operas - and film director Minghella's debut at the Metropolitan Opera. Soprano Eleonora Buratto takes on the lead role of tragic geisha, following her previous Met hits as Norina in Don Pasquale and Li in Turandot while Alexander Soddy directs Alexander Soddy directs the evocative and ever-popular production of Anthony Minghella. With Patricia Racette, Marcello Giordani, Dwayne Croft, Maria Zifchak. ![]() He'll desert her in the next act, but for now, they gaze adoringly at each other as dancers hold an arch of paper lanterns over their heads. Puccini: Madama Butterfly: Directed by Gary Halvorson. On a dark and glimmering stage, the tragic Cio-Cio-San strolls amid falling cherry petals with her faithless American husband, Pinkerton. ![]()
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