Die with honour, or live with shame? This is Butterfly’s choice at the end of Puccini’s excoriating tragedy

Japan opens it doors to America as does Butterfly to the callous B F Pinkerton. A great love is met with devastating, casual betrayal.

Puccini’s score is a miracle of economy, its celestial melodies seeping into the heart; its Japanese inflections tenderly evoke this secret culture.

Bring Kleenex.

Sung in Italian with English surtitles

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