Puccini Madam Butterfly Mid Wales Opera, September 2011 Director Stephen Barlow Lighting Declan Randall

Reviews 

It’s another impressive team achievement, and a wonderful example of how to employ modest resources in this most immodest art form. Stephen Barlow’s clever new production also manages to put a refreshing spin on Puccini’s classic... with smart designs by Yannis Thavoris, it sets out to “update and aesthetically streamline”... (Daily Telegraph)

One remarkable thing about Stephen Barlow’s production and Yannis Thavoris’s designs is how well they get round these minor local difficulties ie the need to fit it into whatever space the production may happen to encounter on its travels... (the arts desk)

This is a tough-centred, precise “Madam Butterfly”, cleverly crafted for 2011. (Theatre in Wales)