Megabox Met Opera Screening of 'Madama Butterfly'

Still cut from the Met Opera's 'Madama Butterfly'
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[Asia Economy Reporter Park Byung-hee] Megabox will exclusively screen the third production of the '2020 Season Met Opera,' "Madama Butterfly," until June 27.

"Madama Butterfly" is a representative work by Italy's renowned opera composer Giacomo Puccini, set in 19th-century Nagasaki, Japan.

The opera depicts the heartrending love story of 'Cio-Cio-San,' who becomes a geisha after her family's downfall, and Lieutenant Pinkerton of the U.S. Navy stationed in Nagasaki.

The devoted geisha Cio-Cio-San, who gives everything to Pinkerton, is performed by world-renowned soprano Hee Hwi, while the role of Pinkerton is passionately sung by top-tier tenor Andrea Car?. Additionally, mezzo-soprano ?lisabeth Deschamps plays Suzuki, the maid devoted to Cio-Cio-San, and Tony Award-winning musical actor and baritone Paulo Szot sings the role of Sharpless, Pinkerton's friend and consul.

Furthermore, conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi, who led the Helsinki Symphony Orchestra in Anthony Minghella's production, participates as the conductor.

"Madama Butterfly" premiered on the 5th and will be screened for eight weeks at seven Megabox locations nationwide, including COEX, Bundang, Mokdong, Central, KINTEX, Seongsu, and Masan. The running time is 184 minutes.

The '2020 Season Met Opera' screenings feature live performance videos from the New York Metropolitan Opera, considered one of the world's top three operas. Megabox offers vividness that captures subtle facial expressions, breaths, and beads of sweat as if watching the actual performance, through an excellent sound system and 4K digital projectors boasting four times the resolution of standard HD. Following "Madama Butterfly," "Akhnaten" is scheduled to be released in June.

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