Organization

Zomeropera Alden Biesen

Stage director

Frank Van Laecke

Conductor

Federico Santi

Set designer

Paul Gallis

Costume designer

Yan Tax

Singer

Soprano

Barbara Haveman

Cio-Cio-San

Cecilia Violetta López

Tenor

Rosario La Spina

B.F. Pinkerton

Konstantinos Klironomos

Baritone

Marco Moncloa

Sharpless

Albrecht Pöhl

Bass

Emilio Marcucci

The official registrar

Piet Vansichen

Uncle Bonze

Italian

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Bilzen

Belgium

Alden Biesen Kasteel

Madama Butterfly Puccini

Public

Private

Madame Butterfly

Dutch

Approved

Madame Butterfly is the moving story of the young Japanese Cio-Cio-San who waits years for the return of her great love, American Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton.
Until it turns out that the unconditional love was one-sided and her world collapses.
Frank Van Laecke summarizes his directing concept as follows: “Cio-cio-San shares her story with many. In her name women (who are like ghosts on the stage) await the return of he who will never stay. In her total surrender, in her unyielding logic, waiting is only a necessary phase in her life story. One that doesn't end unknown. After all, there are only two exits: reunion or death.
And in both cases grief and pain die.”
The exit that Frank Van Laecke came up with in the final is astonishing and leaves no one untouched. The development from a naive geisha to a young woman consumed by grief is fantastically directed. The decor by Paul Gallis is an impressive example of Japanese sobriety and Yan Tax's eye-catching costumes and the lighting help to create the right atmosphere in every scene.
Italian libretto, surtitles in Dutch.

English

Madame Butterfly by Puccini, From (2022/2022), Directed by Frank Van Laecke,, Conductor Federico Santi, Alden Biesen Kasteel, Bilzen, Belgium

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Program, About & Synopsis

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