As part of the 1983 Italian Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia


Performances
29 October 1983

National Theatre
St Kilda
Melbourne


Globe Opera presents

Madama Butterfly

[Giacomo Puccini]

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and
Luigi Illica

Conductor
Greg Hocking

Director
Nina Cooke

Designer*
Hugh Colman

Artistic Director
Joseph Talia

Stage Director
Judith McCormack

Assistant Stage Director
Lillian Lee

Lighting Director
John McCormack

Repetiteur
Meredith Talia

Makeup
Nick Dorning, Donna Houston

Front of House Manager
Ron Coster


 

Cast List

Madama Butterfly

 

Catherine Duval
Carolina David (matinee)

Lt. Pinkerton

 

Joseph Talia

Sharpless, US Consul

 

Ian Cousins
Graham Ford (matinee)

Suzuki, servant to Butterfly

  

Suzanne Ward

Goro, a marriage broker

 

Simon O’Loughlin

Prince Yamadori, a suitor

 

Graham Ford
Andrew Kolb (matinee)

The Bonze

 

Brett Jones

Yakuside

 

Andrew Kolb

Kate Pinkerton

 

Christina Saunders

Imperial Commissioner

 

Roger Davy

Registrar

 

Domenico Cannizzaro

The Mother

 

Bette Bailey

The Aunt

 

Barbara Amatnieks

The Cousin

 

Sandra Vainoras

Trouble

 

Natalie Talia

 

with

The Italian Arts Festival Orchestra
[Concertmaster Charles Reither]

and

The Globe Opera Chorus

 

Barbara Amatnieks, Bette Bailey, Andrew Kolb
Marion Bosnakis, Amanda King, Rosalie Long, Kerrie Lynne, Helen Mocellin, Lydia Ricco, Dorothy Turner, Sandra Vainoras, Lea Vosti, Heidi Walters, Jim Atkinson, Brian Siggs,
Domenico Cannizzaro, Roger Davy,
Graham Ford
* Sets and costumes by courtesy of the Victoria State Opera