Details

Nagasaki, 1948. In a country ravaged by war and destruction a young man returns home, searching through the rubble for memories of his mother, a beautiful geisha called Cio-Cio-San but known to the world as Butterfly. Torn away from his Japanese homeland and brought up in America, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, Jr. is forced to confront his true heritage as well as his father's monstrous act of betrayal. Sung by a cast of professional opera singers and using Puccini's original score, Finding Butterfly picks up where the original masterpiece ended, tracing Butterfly's final tragic steps and and featuring the best known and loved arias from one of the most iconic works in the opera canon. Performed as an operatic, site specific play by The Wedding Collective in Limehouse Town Hall, with words in English and an Italian libretto. Score by Andrew Charity (Olivier award winning La Boheme)

Creatives/Company

Music: Puccini
Company: The Wedding Collective