In Rehearsal: A New Butterfly for the Met

In Rehearsal: A New Butterfly for the Met

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 25, 2006

Runtime

0h 30m

Original Title

In Rehearsal: A New Butterfly for the Met

Director

Susan Froemke

Description

Late Academy Award–winning director Anthony Minghella made his Met debut on Opening Night of the 2006–07 season, with a now-classic staging of Puccini’s perennial heartbreaker Madama Butterfly. This documentary follows the production’s creation—from the Met’s subterranean rehearsal rooms to the main stage and on to the premiere—as Minghella worked with the opera’s stars, soprano Cristina Gallardo-Domâs as Cio-Cio-San and tenor Marcello Giordani as Pinkerton.