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Review – Madam Butterfly, English National Opera

Posted on June 28, 2009 | No Comments
So, off to the Coliseum to brave baking June temperatures and programmes full of private school adverts, all in the name of Puccini. This production is the first London revival of the famous 2005 production by Anthony Minghella, and the work has lost little since...
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