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WQED-FM 2024-25 Season Rebroadcast: Madama Butterfly
Saturday, October 4, 2025
1:00 PM
WQED-FM
Pittsburgh Opera 2024–25 Season Performances on WQED-FM 89.3 and wqed.org/fm Pittsburgh Opera, in collaboration with Classical WQED-FM 89.3, will broadcast the 202425 season productions, giving listeners an opportunity to enjoy the operas all over again.
Madama Butterfly
In this groundbreaking new production created by an all Japanese and Japanese American creative team, Madama Butterfly’s story is transported to a fantastical realm where reality and dreams intersect. Pinkerton puts on a VR headset and transports us into a vibrant virtual reality playground where he has ultimate control. As his avatar, a U.S. Navy Lieutenant, he can seduce and marry his fantasy girl and abandon her just as easily. But to Cio-Cio San, this is no game and the love and betrayal she feels is all too real.
--Entertainment Central Pittsburgh
"One thing is certain, and that is anything but panoramic photography can’t do the staging any justice. Lighting, costumes, set design, direction – all are quite admirable and fill the entire Benedum performing space."
