MADAME BUTTERFLY will stream worldwide for free, for 24-hours-only

The incredible Met in HD production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly has announced a 24-hours-only stream set for April 17th, 2020. For a direct streaming link, check our updating list of free musicals and plays you can now stream from home!

Following the broadcast, the production will be available for a limited 24-hour period in which viewers around the world would be able to rewatch the show. Conducted by Patrick Summers and starring Patricia Racette, Marcello Giordani, and Dwayne Croft, the production was originally shot for the Met in HD program.

"The title character of Madama Butterfly—a young Japanese geisha who clings to the belief that her arrangement with a visiting American naval officer is a loving and permanent marriage—is one of the defining roles in opera. The story triggers ideas about cultural and sexual imperialism for people far removed from the opera house, and film, Broadway, and popular culture in general have riffed endlessly on it. The lyric beauty of Puccini’s score, especially the music for the thoroughly believable lead role, has made Butterfly timeless."