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Mariposa

Mariposa Carlos Pons

Under the neon lights of a distant Caribbean port, a local rent boy and a foreign sailor fall ominously in love in choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra’s queer reimagining of Puccini’s seminal opera, Madame Butterfly.

Mariposa is an operatic dance drama that transports Puccini’s Orientalist libretto to post-revolution Cuba, to a dockland world of faded showgirls, hopeful rent boys, troubled sailors and santeria spirits. Engulfed in a tropical storm of repressed desires, this production is a passionate and deeply moving exploration of what we are ready to sacrifice in order to be loved and accepted.

With original music by award-winning Spanish composer Luis Miguel Cobo, inspired by Caribbean sounds as well as Puccini, Mariposa will move dance and opera audiences alike.

Following the performance on the evening of March 14, choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra will be joined onstage by Álvaro González Montero (University of Leeds). Álvaro will moderate a discussion of the Hispanic literary sources that inspired Mariposa, with a focus on queer Hispanic writing, inviting audiences to ask questions and share any thoughts.

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