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Appearing in Broken Hill on Wednesday September 24, 2008 at the Broken Hill Entertainment Centre.
Oz Opera presents Puccini's Madame Butterfly - under taking a 13-week tour to remote and regional locations across four states - Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia - beginning its touring season with a performance in Dandenong, Victoria. Along the way, Oz Opera will give 46 performances and visit 29 cities including three which have never experienced an Oz Opera production before: Griffith, Cowra and Broken Hill.
Puccini's Madame Butterfly is a moving tale is set in 1946 in the historic city of Nagasaki, a year after the Japanese surrender to the United States. Cio-Cio-San, a fifteen-year-old Geisha girl, is married off to Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the victorious American navy. They fall in love, instantly, but when it is time for Pinkerton to go back home, he discards his fragile Butterfly. And so, caught between two worlds, the old and the new, Madame Butterfly waits. One fine day, she knows, he will return...
Tickets are available from Council's Box Office, located within the Administrative Centre, 240 Blende Street, weekdays between 8.30am and 3.30pm. Tickets are also available for purchase over the phone with a credit card, by calling (08) 8080 3300.
Ticket Prices
Adults $38.30
Conc $33.30
Stud/Child $28.30
Contact details
Customer Relations
Ph: (08) 8080 3300
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