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Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly

Name: Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly
Start: 2024-10-25T19:30:00
Location: Barbican Centre

Barbican Centre

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Love, betrayal, self-deception. The themes of M. Butterfly intertwine with those of Puccini’s achingly tragic opera; but here they’re ingeniously upended as the action is relocated to Paris and Mao’s China. Nothing is quite what it seems. Stereotypes are challenged, power struggles realigned. Reprising their roles from the 2022 Santa Fe world premiere, Kangmin Justin Kim is the alluring Chinese opera singer of the title, with Mark Stone as René G...

Program

Huang Ruo - M. Butterfly

Participants

Carolyn Kuan

Conductor

Mark Stone

René Gallimard

Kangmin Justin Kim

Song Liling

Fleur Barron

Comrade Chin/Shu Fung

Kevin Burdette Manuel