Event | 
					 Madame Butterfly 
						
						
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				| Venue | 
				Princess Theatre, Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand | 
			
			
				
					| First Date | 
					
					23 August 2003 | 
				
			
				
					| Last Date | 
					
					August 2003 | 
				
			
			
				| Dates Estimated | 
			
				No | 
			
			
				
					| Status | 
					
					Pro-Am | 
				
			
			
				| World Premiere | 
				
				No | 
			
			
			
				
					| Description | 
  					Director Elric Hooper, who has twice directed this opera, said he had chosen to draw on aspects of Japanese theatre to recreate Puccini's work. 'The hanimichi audience walk-way and kurogo black-clad stage hands, the use of symbolic artifices to portray love and death, could be most useful to tell afresh this universal story,' he said in a statement. | 
				
			
			
				| Primary Genre | 
				
				Music Theatre
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					| Secondary Genre | 
					
					
					
						
						
							Opera
						
							
						 
						
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						| Text Nationality | 
						
						New Zealand
					
					
				
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						| Production Nationality | 
						
						New Zealand
				
				
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					| Further Information | 
					
					
					Chorus of 34 singers. Otago's first fully-professional opera.
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					| Event Status | 
					
					
					Completed
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					| Data Set | 
					Theatre Aotearoa | 
				
			
			
				
					| Event Identifier | 
					
					190589 | 
				
			
			
				
			
			
			
			
			
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