OperaUpClose Directs Madam Butterfly (or Bangkok Butterfly) Dec 11-Jan 23

By: Nov. 17, 2010
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Puccini's operatic masterpiece Madama Butterfly is transplanted to present-day Bangkok in the world premiere of Madam Butterfly (or Bangkok Butterfly), a radical reinterpretation, directed by OperaUpClose artistic director Adam Spreadbury-Maher, who makes his operatic directing debut for the company.

Madam Butterfly (or Bangkok Butterfly) runs from Saturday December 11 to Sunday January 23.

Press night is Thursday January 6.

Madam Butterfly (or Bangkok Butterfly) transplants Puccini's story of doomed love between an American naval lieutenant and his young Japanese bride from 1904 Nagasaki to 2011 Bangkok, Thailand. Here Butterfly is a 15-year-old Lady Boy and Pinkerton is an American Airlines pilot on his first long-haul flight, whose head is turned on a drunken night at the city's seedy bars.

Madam Butterfly (or Bangkok Butterfly) is OperaUpClose's second Puccini opera following their groundbreaking La Bohème in a pub setting at the c*ckTavern, Kilburn, that then transferred for a sell-out season at Soho Theatre.

It is also the company's first multi-instrument production, using piano, viola and clarinet to capture the south east asian essence of Puccini's original masterpiece and give a depth and texture to this boutique production.

OperaUpClose is dedicated to presenting new, challenging and classic operas in intimate spaces using young world-class trained singers and directors. Spreadbury-Maher and Robin?Norton-Hale are bringing opera to life for new audiences, offering extraordinary opportunity to experience the dramatic and musical event of opera close up. Award-winning Spreadbury-Maher - whose other venue, Kilburn's c*ckTavern Theatre, was last November awarded the Peter Brook Empty?Space Dan Crawford Award for his work including a groundbreaking production of La Bohème - has transformed the?King's?Head into London's Little Opera House, the first new theatre dedicated to opera in the capital for more than 40 years.

Madam Butterfly (or Bangkok Butterfly)
by Giacomo Puccini

in a new translation by Adam Spreadbury-Maher and Ben Cooper,
co-founders of OperaUpClose and producers of the world's longest continuously running opera, La Bohème at The c*ckTavern and Soho Theatre

Musical Director Elspeth Wilkes
Director Adam Spreadbury-Maher

Listings information

Madam Butterfly
(or Bangkok Butterfly)

London's?Little Opera House
at The King's Head Theatre

115 Upper Street
London N1 1QN

11TH DECEMBER 2010 - 23RD JANUARY 2011

7.15PM WEDNESDAY - SATURDAY

3.00PM SATURDAY & SUNDAY

5.00PM 24TH & 31ST DEC

£15 Full Price / £13 Concession tickets apply to WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY EVENING &
SATURDAY, SUNDAY MATINEE

£15 tickets apply to
FRIDAY & SATURDAY EVENING

www.kingsheadtheatre.com
Box office: 0844 477 1000



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