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Tears on the picnic lawn: Madama Butterfly makes her bow at the Glyndebourne Festival

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“spitting cobra col legno attacks as Cio-Cio San's suicide is interrupted”
Reviewed at Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne on 19 May 2018
Puccini, Madama Butterfly
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Omer Meir Wellber, Conductor
Annilese Miskimmon, Director
Nicky Shaw, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Olga Busuioc, Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)
Joshua Guerrero, Pinkerton
Michael Sumuel, Sharpless
Elizabeth DeShong, Suzuki
Carlo Bosi, Goro
Szymon Mechliński, Prince Yamadori
Oleg Budaratskiy, The Bonze
Ida Ränzlöv, Kate Pinkerton
Eirlys Myfanwy Davies, Cio-Cio-san's mother
Jennifer Witton, The cousin
Shuna Scott Sendall, The aunt
Jake Muffett, The Official Registrar
Michael Mofidian, The Imperial Commissioner
Adam Marsden, Yakuside
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Glyndebourne revives Michieletto’s Kátya Kabanová
***11
All the world’s a jest: Falstaff returns to Glyndebourne
***11
A strong new Figaro opens at Glyndebourne
****1
Glyndebourne's Saul still packs a punch 10 years on
*****
Unhurried suspense in a very English Parsifal
****1
Glyndebourne’s season opens with Rossini’s Barber of Seville
*****
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