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Soprano

Linda Ballová

Cio-Cio-San

Mezzo-soprano

Jana Hrochová

Suzuki

Jitka Klečanská

Kate Pinkerton

Tenor

Luciano Mastro

B.F. Pinkerton

Petr Levíček

Goro

Jakub Tolaš

Prince Yamadori

Bass

David Szendiuch

Uncle Bonze

Vít Nosek

Uncle Yakusidé

Martina Mádlová

The aunt

Ivona Špičková

The cousin

Stage director

Jiří Nekvasil

Set designer

Daniel Dvořák

Costume designer

Marie Blažková

Chorus master

Pavel Koňárek

Peter Berger

Baritone

Svatopluk Sem

Sharpless

Hana Koňárková

David Nykl

The imperial commissioner

Jana Iskrová

Cio-Cio San's mother

Conductor

Robert Kružík

Choreographer

Ladislava Košíková

Libretto

Giuseppe Giacosa

Luigi Illica

Tadeáš Hoza

Hana Kopřivová Šumpíková

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Orchester des Nationaltheaters Brünn/Brno

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Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

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Madama Butterfly Puccini

Madame Butterfly

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Love, betrayal and death in exotic Japan.

The second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth was a period when Europe was fascinated by Japanese culture. Japanese gardens and interiors were in fashion, as well as commercial art and clothing. So it is no surprise that when in a small London theatre Giacomo Puccini saw a play by the American dramatist David Belasco about the unhappy love of a Japanese geisha Cio-Cio-San (called Butterfly) for an American naval officer called Pinkerton, he immediately decided to set it to music. The story provided the composer with a theme containing a large helping of sentiment and the exotic environment of Japanese culture, which Puccini complemented with moving melodies. The choice of a foreign setting meant that in the opera Madame Butterfly he had to master a new form of musical expression. He studied culturally distant Japan, having a number of gramophone records brought over from Tokyo so as to get to know Japanese folk music, and put great effort into capturing Japanese local colour. Madame Butterfly is a masterpiece in the fine detail of atmosphere and poesy. The creative duo of Jiří Nekvasil and Daniel Dvořák created an attractive minimalist production inspired by Japanese culture, which respects modern trends in contemporary European theatre.

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