The artistic team responsible for this "Butterfly" made radical decisions and changes. Puccini's original three acts of linear story " love and "wedding," waiting, betrayal and death " are reorganized and abbreviated into three scenes of waiting, remembered love, and then betrayal. Some minor characters in the original opera are eliminated to create a caste of just five singing characters. The entire orchestra is red…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:46AM on June 9, 2017