Madama Butterfly 蝶々夫人 in Japanese and English Aratani Theatre (movie)
- Production country: US
- Producer: Josh Shaw
- Genre: Music, Drama, History, Romance, War
- Budget: $10,000
- Release date: 4/14/2019
- Run time: 188 min.
Movie description
So what if... what if a brash American naval officer and a young Japanese girl met and fell in love? How would they communicate? (Certainly not in Italian!) In POP’s most ambitious production to date, Artistic Director Josh Shaw’s long-time dream of a bilingual Madama Butterfly comes to life at The Aratani Theatre in Little Tokyo. With a new libretto by Josh Shaw and Eiki Isomura, all Japanese roles will be sung in Japanese and all American roles will be sung in English. This is a co-production with Opera in the Heights (Houston). This production is sponsored in part by an Innovations Grant from Opera America.
