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Anthony Minghella's classic production of Madam Butterfly makes a welcome return with a sensational role debut by Natalya Romaniw as Cio-Cio-san.

Anthony Minghella's production remains a feast for the eyes, but this performance failed to gel into a dramatic whole. 

A star-turn from Ermonela Jaho as Puccini's heroine. 

 “The Minghella Butterfly” has physically lost none of its luster, but the singing did not live up to the staging.

The sheer opulence of Minghella's staging often overwhelms, drenched in colour. Is that enough to really get to the core of the drama though, or is it all surface gloss?

Anthony Minghella's Madama Butterfly is still one of the best productions running at the Met at the moment, and Kristine Opolais was the dramatic star of the evening.

Roman mythology bumps into Buddhism, not always comfortably, in Zhang Huan’s production of Handel’s Semele at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.