FREE Opera Film Screening: Giacomo Puccini's "Madame Butterfly"

A Japanese tragedy in three acts, Giacomo Puccini’s "Madame Butterfly" tells the story of Cio-Cio-San, a young geisha who gives up her family and traditions for her love of the American naval officer Pinkerton, only to be abandoned. From this story of seduction, devotion, and betrayal, Puccini creates one of opera’s most emotionally powerful works, contrasting Pinkerton’s brutality with Butterfly’s fragile hope and ardent love. In this Opéra national de Paris production, director Robert Wilson moves away from traditional fans and cherry blossoms, using stylized movement, sculpted light, and a bare stage to let Puccini’s soaring melodic lines unfold with striking purity.
Join us this August for four extraordinary screenings of operas and ballets from the Opéra national de Paris, presented at Halifax Central Library’s Paul O’Regan Hall. Each film screening begins at 2:00pm on Sundays in August, admission is FREE, and advance registration is available on our website: 🎟️ ceciliaconcerts.ca or through the link in our bio.
Co-presented by Cecilia Concerts, Alliance Française Halifax, Halifax Public Libraries, and the Opéra national de Paris. Season Sponsor: Nice Moves / Red Door Realty