Madame Butterfly (1967 film)

"Madame Butterfly"
	Wednesday Theatre episode
Episode no.	Season 3; Episode 15
Directed by	Peter Page
Original air date	19 April 1967

Madam Butterfly is a 1967 Australian TV adaptation of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly. It aired on 19 April 1967 as part of Wednesday Theatre. Australian TV drama was relatively rare at the time.[1]

It was produced by Peter Page in the Gore Hill Studios, Sydney, starring the Chinese soprano and film actress, Kiang Haw as Madam Butterfly, and an Asian cast.[2]

References

Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
"Wednesday, April 19 (TV listing)". The Canberra Times (11, 665). 17 April 1967. p. 17. Retrieved 5 May 2019 – via Trove, National Library of Australia.

External links

Wednesday Theatre at Austlit

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[1] Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.

[2] "Wednesday, April 19 (TV listing)". The Canberra Times (11, 665). 17 April 1967. p. 17. Retrieved 5 May 2019 – via Trove, National Library of Australia.