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An innocent young victim and a privileged American man behaving badly: ‘Madama Butterfly’ returns to the Toronto stage
has returned to the Canadian Opera Company for an eight-show run in a new-to-Toronto production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” ...
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Detroit Opera House’s ‘Madame Butterfly’ looks to ‘kill the white men’s fantasy of Asian women’
Directed by Matthew Ozawa with a set by design collective dots, this production of Madame Butterfly reinvents the tragic opera while putting the fetishized white male gaze of the original ...
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A new ‘Madama Butterfly’ takes off at the Canadian Opera Company — then almost crashes because of this colour-blind casting decision
The future of “Madama Butterfly” at the Canadian Opera Company is — pun not intended — up in the air. Joshua Chong is a Toronto-based arts critic and culture reporter for the Star.
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Review: MADAMA BUTTERFLY at Four Seasons Centre For The Performing Arts
Puccini and librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa are calling out the ills of practices toward Asian and other racialized women that were accepted male indulgences. Inevitably ...