Milton Keynes TheatreMilton Keynes, South-East, MK9 3NZ, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924) | Madama Butterfly | Libretto by Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa |
Performers
| Welsh National Opera | |||
| Andrew Greenwood | Conductor | ||
| Joachim Herz | Director | ||
| Reinhart Zimmerman | Set Designer | ||
| Eleonore Kleiber | Costume Designer | ||
| Chorus of Welsh National Opera | |||
| Orchestra of Welsh National Opera | |||
| Sarah Crisp | Revival Director | ||
| Karah Son | Soprano | Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) | 2017 Mar 24 |
| Linda Richardson | Soprano | Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) | 2017 Mar 25 |
| Jonathan Burton | Tenor | Pinkerton | 2017 Mar 24 |
| Paul Charles Clarke | Tenor | Pinkerton | 2017 Mar 25 |
| David Kempster | Baritone | Sharpless | |
| Rebecca Afonwy-Jones | Mezzo-soprano | Suzuki | |
| Richard Wiegold | Bass | The Bonze | |
| Sian Meinir | Soprano | Kate Pinkerton | |
| Simon Crosby Buttle | Tenor | Goro | |
| Monika Sawa | Soprano | Cio-Cio-san's mother | |
| Meriel Andrew | Soprano | The cousin | |
| Carolyn Jackson | Soprano | The aunt | |
| Alastair Moore | Baritone | Prince Yamadori | |
| Jack O'Kelly | Baritone | The Official Registrar | |
| Martin Lloyd | Bass | The Imperial Commissioner | |
| George Newton-Fitzgerald | Bass | Yakuside |
Joachim Herz’s Madam Butterfly has been with us for over three decades and with good reason. It’s a classic, traditional staging of this much-loved opera. While being completely faithful to the composer’s intentions it also critiques imperialism to powerful effect. Each scene looks like a sepia photograph through which we glimpse a vanished world.
