The cranes are flying
Andrea Breth directs Madama Butterfly in Aix-en-Provence (****) [stream]
Three gong beats, not present in the score, open this production. They foreshadow the moment in the score when we hear them again and the culture shock between East and West is felt at its fiercest in the anger of Uncle Bonze. It is this friction, this estrangement between two cultures that…
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