The Santa Fe Opera will serve fresh twists on classics by Bizet, Rossini, Verdi and Wagner, spiced with the world premiere of “M. Butterfly.”
Based on the Tony Award-winning play of the same name, “M. Butterfly” germinated when the composer Huang Ruo’s opera “Dr. Sun Yat-sen” opened at Santa Fe in 2014. “M. Butterfly” will open July 30.
“He saw the play when he was back in college at Oberlin,” SFO general director Robert K. Meya said.
“M. Butterfly” playwright David Henry Hwang said he’d always imagined his piece transformed into an opera.
Santa Fe commissioned the work from the two artists.