Monday, May 08, 2017

Butterfly at WNO

I wrote about WNO's Madame Butterfly for Parterre.com:
Opera warhorse overload can happen to the best of us, and going into Washington National Opera’s final presentation of the season, Madama Butterfly, I feared that I might be geisha’d out. My most recent encounter just six months ago (a Vienna State Opera production with Kristine Opolais) was well done but left me thoroughly cold, a sign that a personal moratorium on this particular chestnut might be in order. 

Read the whole thing here...

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