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Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier direct Madama Butterfly in London (****½) [cinema]

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Apr 08, 2024
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Joshua Guerrero (Pinkerton) & Asmik Grigorian (Cio-Cio-San) © Tristram Kenton

Could there really be people with hearts of stone who could sit through Madama Butterfly and remain unmoved in the process? Perhaps the psychopaths who dropped the fatal "Fat Man" on Cio-Cio-San's hometown of Nagasaki in 1945? Puccini could never have imagined how his story of …

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