Madama Butterfly at the Met

Cristina Gallardo-Domas as Cio-Cio-San, with her puppet son

in Anthony Minghella's Madama Butterfly, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York

Anthony Minghella put together a remarkable team for the Met's production of Madama Butterfly: set designer Michael Levine, costume designer Han Feng, puppeteers from London's Blind Summit Puppet Theatre, and Minghella's wife, choreographer Carolyn Choa. Most of them are newcomers to opera.

Nick Barnes and Mark Down of Blind Summit Puppet Theatre with a Madama Butterfly puppet "understudy." (Real Player only)

BBC iPlayer of Met broadcast