Exquisite Madam Butterfly crushed in the RAH

By Mark Pullinger, 27 February 2015

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Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 26 February 2015

Puccini, Madama Butterfly

Oliver Gooch, Conductor

David Freeman, Director

David Roger, Set Designer

Hyeseoung Kwon, Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)

Sabina Kim, Suzuki

Jeffrey Gwaltney, Pinkerton

David Kempster, Sharpless

Lise Christensen, Kate Pinkerton

Julius Ahn, Goro

Swungwook Seong, Prince Yamadori

Richard Suart, The Official Registrar

Michael Druiett, The Bonze

Freddie Tong, The Imperial Commissioner

Michael Wallace, Yakuside

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Crushed wings: exquisite Madam Butterfly suffers in the Royal Albert Hall