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Under the neon lights of a Caribbean port, a local rent boy and a foreign sailor fall in love in choreographer Carlos Pons Guerra’s 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. Set to an original score by Luis Miguel Cobo, this brand new production is a passionate and deeply moving exploration of what we are ready to sacrifice in order to be loved.