Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
135 N Grand Ave
213.972.0777
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Madama Butterfly
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Wednesday Oct 1, 2008 (7:30pm)
Sunday Oct 5, 2008 (2pm)
Wednesday Oct 8, 2008 (1pm)
Friday Oct 10, 2008 (7:30pm)
Sunday Oct 12, 2008 (2pm)
Wednesday Oct 15, 2008 (7:30pm)
Saturday Oct 18, 2008 (7:30pm)
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- Price
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$20 - 230
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Madama Butterfly's composer, Giacomo Puccini, rightly considered the opera his most "deeply felt and imaginative" work. Inspiring a number of reinterpretations — including a postmodern version by playwright David Henry Hwang and the Weezer album Pinkerton — the three-act opera tells the tale of 15-year-old geisha Cio-Cio San and her tragic love affair. Set in Nagasaki but sung in Italian with English subtitles, Robert Wilson's austere and static production informs the singers' every movement — they wander the minimalist stage slowly, delivering robotic gestures that contrast the sentimentality of the score. The result is an avant-garde and emotionally affecting rendition that transforms this classic work.
