Madama Butterfly Tickets

A beautiful staging of a favourite opera brings Puccini's Madama Butterfly back to The Royal Opera repertory. The 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 one of the most ravishing of scores, which features such wonderfully lyrical passages as Cio-Cio-San's first entrance, Pinkerton's seduction of her, the famous Humming chorus, and of course Butterfly's 'un bel di vedremo'. Patricia Racette appears as the Butterfly of the title, Cio-Cio-San, a role for which she is acclaimed worldwide - and James Valenti makes an especially dashing Pinkerton, whose thoughtless toying with love is the catalyst for this classic tragic story.

The second Puccini opera of the summer, this revival offers the drama, the musical richness and the sheer enjoyment of great performance that makes The Royal Opera world class.

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