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Opera North - Madame Butterfly
Opens: 16/11/2011 Closes: 17/03/2012
UK tour
As soon as Japan warmed to the idea of international trade in the mid-1800s, a craze for all things Japanese swept the west. Puccini’s masterpiece rode this wave, but is still among the most performed operas ever. Annie Sophie Duprels plays the delicate Cio-Cio San, devastated by her love rat of an American husband.For more information visit: http://www.operanorth.co.uk/events/madama-butterfly/ Buy: http://www.operanorth.co.uk/events/madama-butterfly/
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80 %
The Independent“Thoughtful, intelligent and entirely unsentimental production...” They have managed to bring back no less than three of the four lead singers from the first run. Not surprisingly, they inhabit their roles with an assurance and completeness which is refreshing but all too rare...
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80 %
Guardian“Not an opera that can be easily updated...” There's empathetic support from Ann Taylor's Suzuki and Peter Savidge's Sharpless; and Daniele Rustioni proves to be a fine Puccini conductor, the Japanese textures never soupy...
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80 %
Opera Britannia“Orchestral textures are translucent and impeccably balanced...” Savidge's performance alone would be enough to make you grope around in the stygian darkness of the auditorium for the Kleenex tissues...
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100%
Whatsonstage.com“A Butterfly as full of tension as of pathos...” The tragedy of Cio-Cio-San is intensified by being given a context, rather than being generated only by a few heart-stopping arias. The heart-stopping arias are necessary, of course, and Anne-Sophie Duprels delivers!...
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