Composition faculty artist Kevin Puts and opera stage director Garnett Bruce will open and close Austin Opera’s 2016-17 30th anniversary season. The season begins with The Manchurian Candidate, an adaptation by Kevin Puts of the novel by Richard Condon, on Saturday, September 17, 2016, and closes with Garnett Bruce’s production of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly on Saturday, April 29, Thursday, May 4, and Sunday, May 7, 2017. The productions will take place at The Long Center in Austin, Texas.