It is a production at the level of Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute and the well-known Zefirelli productions. Mitterrand combines the Tunisian scenery and a Chinese soprano in this visually spectacular adaptation. Ying Huang as Butterfly captures the moving, pathetic figure of the youthful geisha. Baritone Richard Cowan as Sharpless reaches similar heights. Mitterrand transforms the Tunisian mountainside into the Nagasaki of 1904, and uses Japanese archival documentary material to suggest the historical context of the tragedy's setting.
Butterfly portrays a world of love and dreams destroyed by the crude realities of life.
Madame Butterfly es su segunda obra. Frederic Mitterrand Born in Paris in 1947. Graduated from the Political Studies Institute in 1968, with a major in History and Geography. Madame Butterfly is his second directorial work.