A beautiful staging of a favourite opera brings Puccini’s Madama Butterfly back to The Royal Opera repertory.

Madama Butterfly’s story of a Japanese geisha’s love for an American naval officer moved Puccini to compose music of rare and sensual beauty, but also of heartrending power as the tragedy unfolds to its devastating conclusion.

Andris Nelsons conducts Madama Butterfly’s ravishing score, which features such lyrical passages as Cio-Cio-San’s first entrance, Pinkerton’s seduction of her, the famous Humming chorus, and Butterfly’s ‘un bel dì vedremo’.

Patricia Racette appears as the Butterfly of the title, Cio-Cio-San, a role for which she is acclaimed worldwide, and James Valenti plays a dashing Pinkerton, whose thoughtless toying with love is the catalyst for this classic tragic story.

Madama Butterfly is sung in Italian with English surtitles.

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