Name: Madama Butterfly
Start: 2023-03-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-03-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Kendall Hall Main Stage Theater

Organization

Lighting designer

Joseph Lazarus

Soprano

Ashley Bell

Cio-Cio-San

Tenor

Jeremy Brauner

B.F. Pinkerton

Mezzo-soprano

Ashley Kay Armstrong

Suzuki

Baritone

Daniel Sutin

Sharpless

John Easterlin

Goro

Conductor

Joseph Pucciatti

Sound designer

Jason Milstein

Bass

Charles Schneider

Uncle Bonze

Stage director

Stefanos Koroneos

Costume designer

Olga Turka

Boheme Opera NJ

Others

The Boheme Opera NJ Chorus

Orchestra

The Boheme Opera NJ Orchestra

Iodáilis

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Trenton

United States

Kendall Hall Main Stage Theater

Madama Butterfly Puccini

Public

Private

Madame Butterfly

Béarla

Approved

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Librettist

Set designer

Choreographer

Dancer

Actor

Chorus master

Video designer

Dramaturge

Translator

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Illustrator

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Extra

Countertenor

Singer

Contralto

Bass-baritone

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

While in London in 1900, Puccini attended a performance of American theatrical producer and playwright David Belasco’s one-act play Madame Butterfly, which recounted the tale (derived from a short story of the same name by American author John Luther Long) of a Japanese girl’s ill-fated love for an American sailor. Although he knew no English, Puccini responded to the play’s poignancy and asked his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, to obtain the story’s operatic rights. Early in 1901 the composer and his favourite librettists, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, with whom he had previously worked with success on Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, and Tosca, set about creating Madama Butterfly.

Puccini and his librettists took steps to introduce an element of realism into the new opera. Illica even traveled to Nagasaki to investigate local colour, while Puccini set about researching Japanese music. He visited with the wife of the Japanese ambassador to Italy, who sang Japanese folk songs to him. She also acquired for him sheet music for further study. Puccini’s music for the opera reflects what he had learned and even makes a few direct references to the Japanese songs he had been exposed to. To delineate the American characters, Puccini often used a bluff forthright manner of expression, and he occasionally worked in bits of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

For all his care in composing the opera, Puccini was stunned at its reception. The opening-night audience at La Scala in Milan on February, 17, 1904, openly jeered, booing and hissing throughout the performance. Madama Butterfly’s Japanese theme was mocked, and its tragic heroine was derided as a secondhand copy of Mimì from La Bohème. Puccini withdrew the opera from performance after opening night, but he was not discouraged. Perhaps he was aware that jealous rivals had filled the house with their own noisy supporters.

Nevertheless, he and his librettists began extensive revisions, most notably dividing the opera’s overly long second act. The new Madama Butterfly, which reached the stage in Brescia, Italy, on May 28, 1904, was a great success. Two more revisions would follow, in 1905 and 1906, before the opera reached its definitive form. All versions included “Un bel dì,” which remains one of the best-known arias in the soprano repertoire.

English

Madame Butterfly by Puccini, Ó (2023/2023), Faoi stiúir Stefanos Koroneos,, Seoltóir Joseph Pucciatti, Kendall Hall Main Stage Theater, Trenton, United States

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Criú

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid