Opera Director
Madama Butterfly - Puccini
Bury Court Opera - 2016
Surrey, UK
Director: Julia Burbach
Music Director: Simon Over
Designer: Naomi Dawson
Lighting Designer: Nao Nagai
Associate Director: Greg Eldridge
Assistant Director: Mark Burns
Surtitles: Mark Burns
Cio–Cio-San: Mamie Matsuda
B.F. Pinkerton: Elgan Llyr Thomas
Suzuki: Ayaka Tanimoto
Sharpless: Gareth Brynmore John
Goro: Christopher Diffey
Prince Yamadori: Nicholas Dwyer
The Bonze: Freddie Tong
Imperial Commissioner: James Gower
Kate Pinkerton: Flora McIntosh
Chorus:
Laura Monaghan
Julia Sariego
Amy Spruce
Alexandra Stenson
Alice Usher
Kim Howthorn
Sophie Kent
Olivia Martin
Latana Phoung
Rhys Cook
Gabriel Courvoisier
Henry Nagan
Damien Noyce
Photographers:
Ohmid Salehi
Robert Workman
...a Madama Butterfly that upstages any London production I’ve yet encountered…
…the company’s inspiring director, Julia Burbach, brought a rare control of intensity and precision. Her work with the principal duo, both Japanese, was mapped out meticulously…
Opera Now, Roderic Dunnett
★★★★★
