
Film
Metropolitan Opera Live: Madama Butterfly
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 202 mins
Puccini’s evergreen opera about Japanese geisha Cio-Cio-San’s doomed romance with American naval officer Pinkerton. Cultural imperialism ahoy!
Soprano Hui He takes on the title role of the doomed geisha, with tenor Andrea Carè as the rotter who abandons her in the Met’s revival of the late Anthony Minghella‘s 2006 production.