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M. Butterfly

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A smash-hit Broadway play turned movie, David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly metamorphoses into music theatre as the UK premiere of Huang Ruo’s operatic reworking takes wing.

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.

This production contains graphic language, and a depiction of self-harm.

Co-produced by the Barbican and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

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M. Butterfly by Huang, From (2024/2024), Conductor Carolyn Kuan, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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