Madama Butterfly
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin
★★★★☆
The brief, bustling overture to Puccini’s 1904 Madama Butterfly dissolves into the middle of a throwaway conversation about traditional Japanese homes and their suspended and sliding partitions. For Irish National Opera’s coproduction with Scottish Opera, the designer Kat Heath blows up this inconsequential reference for a set comprised of enormous movable panels that serve the opera from start to finish.
Their sheer size is arresting and imposing, fully accommodated on the large stage of the Bord Gáis Ene
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