Iris Meyer / Umsagnir

Director Ezio Toffolutti, who as a universal artist is also responsible for stage design and costumes, relies primarily on the emancipatory strength of his protagonist in the production of Maestro Puccini's own favorite opera "Madama Butterfly" at the Lübeck Theater. Butterfly, who was sold as a wife to the American naval officer BF Pinkerton, who was only interested in sporadic pleasure, exoticism and sex tourism, is by no means submissive to her new husband. She encounters the man whom she blindly decided to love in a devastating manner without any shyness and without modest gentleness. Rather, something decisive, resolute and in a certain way - think

Amelie Müller as Silvia Lombardi, actress, mistress of the prime minister and object of the fashion designer's desires, not only looked dazzling in her elegant figure-hugging costumes (by Aleksandra Kica ), she also offered enchantingly beautiful singing with her soprano voice, which was confident in all registers to the floating top notes, and she truly had the charm, grace and charisma of a Neapolitan film diva. Her admirer, the tailor and fashion designer Andrea Coclé, was the likeable baritone Steffen Kubach , also great in his soulful arias and the duets with Silvia,visually quite the bon vivant with blond curls and initially in a midnight blue satin nightgown, later delicious to look at in his convict outfit - after his Mamma Agata at the beginning of the 2021/22 season, here is another game that seems tailor-made for him.