Royal Opera House 2023/24: Madama Butterfly / 2024

Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage. She lives in hope that one day he will return.

The Little Butterfly That Could / 2022

This funny little butterfly doesn’t think he can make the 200-mile migration, but he’ll learn an important lesson: If at first you don’t succeed, fly, fly again!

Spider Moth Butterfly / 2020

A circus under the iron rule of an unreasonable leader, enthusiastically and unblinkingly followed, and one member whose faith in the circus, their craft, and their leader--her raison d’être--all begin to fray

Butterfly in a Bell Jar / 2017

Like something out of a nightmare, a young girl named River is kidnapped and held captive. Her abductor leaves more than bruises behind as she is tortured both physically and mentally for over ten years.

Transparent Butterfly / 2021

None, nothing, and struggling. TRANSPARENT DRAGONFLY is an experimental animation about non-feeling.

Butterfly Range / 1922

Butterfly Range is a 1922 Western

The Butterfly Effect / 2022

Butterfly,My Soul /

Juliette Burton - Butterfly Effect / 2020

Following total sell-out Edinburgh Fringe shows in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018, Award-winning comedian Juliette Burton will be touring the UK in autumn 2018 with Butterfly Effect, her hugely popular show, in which she investigates the power of kindness and whether small, kind-hearted acts can make the world a better place.

Butterfly Flower / 2017

It’s Valentine’s Day, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia. A Vietnamese prostitute named Pisces is conned to her cocoon. She searches for true love, and the search which will define her.

Madama Butterfly / 2004

Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased from a marriage broker. The broker, Goro, has procured him three servants and a geisha wife, Cio-Cio-San, known as Madama Butterfly. He is enchanted with the fragile Cio-Cio-San. Cio-Cio-San is heard in the distance joyously singing of her wedding. In a quiet moment, Cio-Cio-San shows her bridegroom her few earthly treasures and tells him of her intention to embrace his Christian faith. The Imperial Commissioner performs the wedding ceremony, and the guests toast the couple. The celebration is interrupted by Cio-Cio-San's uncle, a Buddhist priest, who bursts in, cursing the girl for having renounced her ancestors' religion. Alone with Cio-Cio-San in the moonlit garden, her husband dries her tears, and she joins him in singing of their love.

The Butterfly /

A young woman receives a visit by her estranged alcoholic father who claims he has traveled through time to save her from an accident.

The Butterfly Tattoo / 2009

"Chris Marshall met the girl he was going to kill on a warm night in early June, when one of the colleges in Oxford was holding its summer ball." A chance meeting with Jenny at an Oxford party leaves seventeen-year-old Chris with hope for a summer romance - and no premonition of trouble. Busy with his job and soon in love with Jenny, whose cheerful surface belies the dark uncertainty of her past,

Butterfly Dance / 1896

A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.

Butterfly Dance / 1897

"As performed by Annabelle, the famous premier danseuse. A charmingly graceful representation of the light and airy flight of a butterfly. Beautiful when colored."

Butterfly Skin /

In this ten-minute Art House film, we meet Nik, a young person living in Canberra, who is struggling with their gender identity. We follow the personal struggles they have with their own body, their relationship with their mother and being the subject of cruel bullying.

Poor Little Butterfly / 1938

A butterfly sailor returns to port aboard a turtle battleship to marry his butterfly girlfriend. The courtship runs smoothly and wedding plans are made. The ship's whistle signals the end of shore-leave and frustrates their plans. The sailor ships out, leaving his broken-hearted sweetheart behind.

Reflection of a Tormented Butterfly / 2019

Three high schoolers discover a journal filled with dark magic and the torments of a former friend.

Luna 10 (The Butterfly Effect of Geography) / 1994

Inserts from neo-avant-garde films by Emir Kusturica, Zivojin Pavlovic and Zelimir Zilnik made in the so-called Yugoslav film period of the 1970s and 1980s are re-read, re-worked, re-coded in a video story contemplating the role of different media in the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the time of world internet communications, cyborg stories and world spread computer nets. If it is true that we all part of a giant hypertext, coded by adapted and shortened CD-ROM histories, then why not try to display the video picture as hypertext, as the one which will show the hidden spots of our history and present?

Madame Butterfly / 2022