Butterfly

I'm fortunate to be playing a new production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly at Opera in the Heights. There are two more performances, although there is currently a wait list for tickets. The production is unique in that the Japanese characters sing Japanese and the Americans English. Two of the characters are bilingual and translate for the others.

Eiki Isomura, our conductor and the Artistic Director at OH, has created the Japanese libretto, which closely follows the original Italian. Josh Shaw, the director, has made the English translation. It's a striking and beautiful production. Here is a link to D. L. Groover's review:
https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/thi...