Opera in the Square: Madama Butterfly

Watch Opera Australia’s Madama Butterfly on the Big Screen this Mother’s Day!

Thanks to our friends at Opera Australia and CinemaLive, we’re screening Opera Australia’s Handa Opera production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly here on the Big Screen. We’re also giving away free butterfly pea flower tea mocktails to the first 125 guests. So glam, so fancy! For a free night out at the Opera, you can’t get much better than that. So: pop it in the diary, come early so you can nab a deckchair, and bring your mum – it’s Mother’s Day, after all!

About the production

Ever since it fluttered onto the world’s stages in 1904, Puccini’s Japanese tragedy has moved and fascinated audiences in equal measure. This bold and beautiful staging reveals exactly why the world can’t get enough of Madama Butterfly. 

Premiering at Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in 2014, this production brings a contemporary perspective to the timeless story of Cio–Cio-San, a Japanese girl whose life is turned upside down when she marries an American naval officer. Using lavish sets and dazzling costumes, world-renowned director Àlex Ollé creates the perfect Butterfly under the stars – marrying spectacle with an incisive and sometimes confronting vision of this beloved opera. 

Hiromi Omura brings new dimensions to Cio–Cio-San in a powerhouse performance, opposite Georgy Vasiliev. 

Running time: 2 hrs 25 mins.