The butterfly can be interpreted as representing the ephemerality of time that risks being lost at a moment's notice. By Caitlin Kelley BTS is no stranger to mining emotional depth in their lyrics, ...

Now on its sixth revival, Minghella’s production has lost none of its visual appeal. Quick on its feet, thanks to sets that suggest rather than assert, swiftly reconfigured from moonlit grove to ...

Anthony Minghella’s spectacular Madam Butterfly, which first premiered in 2006, returns to the Coliseum, a cinematic masterpiece which is still jaw-dropping today. A massive glowing panoramic screen ...

The late film director Anthony Minghella won an Oscar for The English Patient but also had a profound love of opera. And his sumptuous production of Madam Butterfly is a real rarity at English ...

To witness Anthony Minghella's Madam Butterfly is to witness the best visual theatrical production opera currently has to offer. I therefore welcome this revival at the London Coliseum with open arms.

The story of Cio-Cio San is a heartbreaking tale of devotion, rejection and despair The visual language is a paean to the ritualised beauty of traditional Japanese art – a decision that would be ideal ...

OF ALL the tragic soprano-dies-at-the-end operas, Puccini's Madam Butterfly is surely the most poignant, and the late Anthony Minghella's production of it must be the most exquisite. Add to that a ...

This is the third or fourth time I have seen Anthony Minghella's stunningly gorgeous production of Puccini's Madam Butterfly at the London Coliseum and in many ways it is the best. Revival director ...