TSM Presents The Butterfly Project
TSM Presents The Butterfly Project
Festival passes are available to purchase beginning March 7th at 10 am, by calling the Weston Family Box office at 416.408.0208, or in person at 273 Bloor St. W.
Single tickets are available to purchase online beginning March 21st at 10am
Amplified Opera:
Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野, interdisciplinary artist
Aria Umezawa, director
Puccini’s famous opera, Madama Butterfly, is reimagined by interdisciplinary performer-creator, Teiya Kasahara 笠原貞野 (they/them) into The Butterfly Project 蝶々さんのプロジェクト (or, The Ballad of Chō-Chō san). Focusing on the Japanese melodies Puccini quotes in the score, The Butterfly Project 蝶々さんのプロジェクト highlights the original intention of these melodies and brings them into the 21st century with live and recorded sounds, electronics, and classical singing.