Madama Butterfly – Sydney Opera House

This is Madama Butterfly as you’ve never seen her. Puccini’s ageless love story – girl meets boy, boy marries in haste and lust, then runs off with someone else – is catapulted into the 21st Century under the direction of Graeme Murphy.

Cio Cio San (Sae-Kyung Rim) is the Japanese beauty who captures the attention of American naval officer Pinkerton (Diego Torre), but Opera Australia’s groundbreaking digital technologies often steal the show with ten seven-metre tall LED screens creating shifting and swirling backdrops.

Read Wendy Kay’s review here.

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

• Sydney Opera House at the Joan Sutherland Theatre
• Until July 30
• Tickets from $79 here