Directed by Anthony Minghella
With puppetry by Blind Summit

Blind Summit created the puppetry, including a life sized, fully realised 3 year old son of Madam Butterfly, for Anthony Minghella and Carolyn Choa's groundbreaking Olivier award winning production of Madam Butterfly.

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“In the aisles and lobbies during the second intermission of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly,” which opened the season on Monday night before a star-studded audience, patrons could be overheard heatedly debating the puppet used to portray Butterfly’s little boy.

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Some people thought it was “more real than any real child they could have had,” as one patron put it. Others thought it was intriguing but very strange. Somewhere in the house, Peter Gelb, the new general manager of the Met, must have been beaming.
New York Times, 29.9.06

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"The production really felt like a pivotal moment for UK Puppetry"
D. Max Pryor, British Council On Tour Magazine

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OLIVIER AWARD - BEST NEW OPERA 2005/6

PREMIERE: English National Opera, London 2005 

CURRENTLY PLAYING AT: LNOBT, Vilnius

Met Opera, New York

Vienna State Opera