June 10 2002, Monday, talk: 6.30pm opera: 7.30pm-10.30pm

PUCCINI'S "MADAM BUTTERFLY" OPERA WITH OPTIONAL PRE-PERFORMANCE TALK

Learn more about Puccini's famous opera and have an option to experience it for yourself afterwards. This is what is on offer today, only - on this, the second last performance date of the current run of this opera at the London Coliseum. Yes, you can learn more about the geisha Cio-Cio-San and others in a talk, before the three-hour performance.
 

Julia Melinek will be playing the part of Madam Butterfly - to find out more attend the talk and/or attend the performance. Then again, you might like to telephone the box office on 020 7632 8300. Tickets: for the talk: £3 and for the opera: £6 up to £61. Location: English National Opera, London Coliseum, St. Martin's Lane, London, WC2. Tube station: Leicester Square (Northern and Piccadilly lines).