FULL M.Butterfly Movie USA 1993 Cronenberg Irons Lone

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: M.Butterfly  
• Composer: Howard Shore and some music by Puccini  
• Libretto: David Henry Hwang Based on M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang  
• Venue & Opera Company: studio and on location  
• Recorded: 1993
• Type: Movie
• Singers: N/A
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director:   
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Warner Bros  
• Date Published: 1993  
• Format: DVD & BD
• Quality Video: 5 Audio:5
• Subtitles: yessubs, essubs  
• Video Recording from: AMAZON     #ad Get this Recording
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The film concerns René Gallimard (Jeremy Irons), a French diplomat assigned to Beijing, China, in the 1960s. He becomes infatuated with a Peking opera performer, Song Liling (John Lone), who spies on him for the Government of the People’s Republic of China. Their affair lasts for 20 years and they subsequently marry, with Gallimard all the while apparently unaware (or willfully ignorant) of the fact that in Peking opera, Dan roles are traditionally performed by men. At the end of the film Gallimard kills himself (although the man he is based on, Bernard Boursicot, did not do this in real life.)