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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

THE ROYAL OPERA - MADAMA BUTTERFLY

 

Rhumbelow Classics Cinema - On The Big Screen will present The Royal Opera’s Madama Butterfly on Monday, April 29.

Screening starts at 18h00. (Venue opens 60 minutes before show for snacks/drinks)

Running time: 195 minutes (incl 1 interval)

Welcome to the Royal Opera House Season 2023/2024, these presentations are LIVE STREAMED EVENTS, with intervals, starring some of the world’s top performers. They are also recorded for venues such as The Rhumbelow Theatre and we are proud to bring you this series of Cinema experiences, as we endeavour to provide entertainment to appeal to everyone.

Madama Butterfly

Live in cinemas from Tuesday March 26, 2024

Music:  Giacomo Puccini

Conductor:  Kevin John Edusei

Directors:  Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier

Set designer:  Christian Fenouillat

Costume designer:  Agostino Cavalca

Lighting designer:  Christophe Forey

Cio-Cio-San: Asmik Grigorian

Lieutenant B.F: Pinkerton Joshua Guerrero

Sharpless: Lauri Vasar

Suzuki: Hongni Wu

Goro Ya-Chung Huang

The Bonze: Jeremy White

Prince Yamadori Josef: Jeongmeen Ahn

Kate Pinkerton: Veena Akama-Makia

Imperial Commissioner: Romanas Kudriašovas

 

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House

Sung in Italian with English subtitles

Generous philanthropic support from Royal Opera House Principals Julia and Hans Rausing

 

For more information, and to book, visit: ROH - Cinema

 

About The Royal Opera

The Royal Opera, under the artistic direction of Antonio Pappano, Music Director, and Oliver Mears, Director of Opera, is one of the world’s leading opera companies. Based in the iconic Covent Garden theatre, it is renowned both for its outstanding performances of traditional opera and for commissioning new works by today’s leading opera composers, such as George Benjamin, Kaija Saariaho, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Thomas Adès.

About the Royal Opera House

Home to The Royal Ballet, The Royal Opera and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, the Royal Opera House brings together world-class performers and trailblazing creative teams to share unforgettable performances with audiences near and far. Our theatres are in London’s Covent Garden, but our work is accessed and experienced across the UK and globally through our streams, tours, cinema programme, radio broadcasts and TV output. 

Over the course of the pandemic, we curated the #OurHouseToYourHouse programme – nine live-streamed concerts and 38 productions from our archives. Content was viewed over 15 million times in 183 countries, and broadcast in partnership with the BBC, Sky Arts, Marquee TV and Netflix. During the pandemic we lost £3 in every £5 of our income and we continue to feel the financial impact as we slowly recover.

In September 2021, we returned for our first full Season since 2019, presenting a packed programme of world premieres, landmark new productions and returning favourites. Since then, we have expanded our audience through a flagship Young ROH scheme, returned to live cinema, launched Royal Opera House Stream, and extended our national impact through an ambitious curriculum-linked programme for schools, specially designed to ignite creativity, broaden participation and diversify the future of opera and ballet. We are committed to reducing our impact on the environment and aim to achieve net zero emissions by 2035.

About ROH Cinema

Since 2008, our cinema programme has brought over 120 opera and ballet broadcasts to audiences across the globe. It now reaches more than 1,500 cinemas from the UK to New Zealand, bringing the best of our resident companies to the big screen. Each broadcast offers audiences the best seat in the house, and includes exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and insights into the rehearsal process. The programme forms an integral part of our plan to secure our future, expand audiences and continue to help facilitate the vital recovery of cinema domestically and internationally.

R150 a ticket. Food available at the Rhumbelow Theatre. Bar Available (no alcohol may be brought on to the premises)

Limited secure parking available.

Booking is essential on email: roland@stansell.co.za or Computicket http://events.durbantheatre.com/

Rhumbelow Theatre is situated at 42 Cunningham Road off Bartle Road in Umbilo, Durban. For more information contact 0824998636.