September 14-24, 2023
Emerson Colonial Theatre
106 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116
Info: https://blo.org/butterfly/
Boston Lyric Opera opens its 2023/24 Season with a four-performance run of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Drawing upon this expertise on Chinatown nightclubs, Arthur Dong serves as Historical Dramaturge for this re-imagined production under the direction of Phil Chan, co-founder of the advocacy group Final Bow for Yellowface. The brand-new production takes place in 1940s America under the shadow of World War II in San Francisco. Amid Puccini’s lush and sweeping score, Chan’s radical re-envisioning unfolds through the story of Butterfly, a Chinatown nightclub performer, and Pinkerton, a young soldier on the eve of his deployment.
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