Organization

Conductor

Brian Castles-Onion

Stage director

Alex Ollé

Susana Gómez

Set designer

Alfons Flores

Costume designer

Lluc Castells

Lighting designer

Alexander Koppelmann

Singer

Soprano

Karah Son

Cio-Cio-San

Eva Kong

Mezzo-soprano

Sian Sharp

Suzuki

Agnes Sarkis

Tenor

Diego Torre

B.F. Pinkerton

Thomas Strong

Baritone

Michael Honeyman

Sharpless

Luke Gabbedy

Virgilio Marino

Goro

Bass

David Parkin

Uncle Bonze

Jud Arthur

Danita Weatherstone

Kate Pinkerton

Alexander Hargreaves

Prince Yamadori

Nathan Lay

The imperial commissioner

Gregory Brown

The official registrar

Opera Australia

Others

Opera Australia Chorus

Orchestra

Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra

Italian

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Sydney City

Australia

Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour

Madama Butterfly Puccini

Public

Private

Madame Butterfly

English

Approved

“A modern Butterfly soars as art and spectacle combine on Sydney Harbour” (Limelight)

The critically acclaimed and wildly popular Madama Butterfly returns to the Handa on Sydney Harbour stage.

Under the stars, with fireworks every night as well as pop up bars and eateries, this is “the most impressive outdoor event in Australia… You don’t need to understand opera to understand what makes the occasion great” (Concrete Playground).

Take your seats overlooking ‘Paradise’ – complete with a bamboo grove, a giant moon, and a rising sun floating in the harbour. The picture-perfect backdrop of the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge twinkles with thousands of city lights as night falls.

For innocent Cio-Cio-San, love flutters on wings of desire. For brash Pinkerton, a flight of fancy is irresistible. On their wedding night, passions ignite. Yet, how ephemeral is their ecstatic embrace?

Puccini’s intimate ode to unrequited love has always been shocking. East meets West, devotion meets disregard, expectation meets disappointment. In the clash, Cio-Cio-San’s dreams shatter.

Madama Butterfly on Sydney Harbour is a “five star world-beating triumph, surely one of the most spectacular outdoor operas ever staged anywhere” (Time Out).

Join us for Sydney’s best night out.

Madame Butterfly by Puccini, From (2023/2023), Directed by Alex Ollé, Susana Gómez,, Conductor Brian Castles-Onion, Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, Sydney City, Australia

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