Abramović settled on an opera – an unlikely medium for the radical performance artist – with 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, which debuted in Munich ... while the ritual suicide of Madama Butterfly is ...

bears more relation to the last act of a Puccini opera like Madam Butterfly or La Bohème than it does to the facts, presenting Maria as a drug addled recluse who is broken by the death of her ...

With the Maria ... Maria Callas alive through Angelina's singing. Matthew also explores how films have turned to their natural predecessor, opera, for inspiration. Puccini's Madame Butterfly ...