![]() ![]() Butterfly is what I’m most proud of,” Robinson says. Butterfly director James Robinson, who served as an usher at SFO decades before his current role, working closely with Huang Ruo and Hwang was a creative dream come true. ![]() Butterfly 懮珋, which sees its world premiere this summer at the Santa Fe Opera, with Hwang in collaboration with composer Huang Ruo, promises to up the ante on the kind of juicy romance and unapologetic agita that marks all the best operas. Butterfly for Broadway in the late 1980s, however, American playwright and librettist David Henry Hwang created something entirely new, with a script that challenges the original story’s Western-dominated narrative by pushing Asian voices to the forefront. Bits from its beloved score are familiar to the most casual fans of the genre. EVEN THE MOST OPERA-APATHETIC have heard of Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini’s tale of a thwarted romance between a young Japanese woman and an American naval officer. ![]()
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