DeNada Dance Theatre: Mariposa review " Madame Butterfly metamorphosed
The Place, LondonCarlos Pons Guerra turns Puccini's tragedy into the story of a Cuban sex worker who completely transforms himself to win the love of a sailor This reimagining of Madame Butterfly turns Puccini's orientalist opera into a queer tragedy, and relocates it from 1904 Japan to post-revolutionary Cuba and a world of sex work and SanterÃa goddesses. Butterfly, the girl who gives up her religion and ultimat…