Name: Madama Butterfly
Start: 2022-04-14
End: 2022-04-14
Location: Semperoper

Organization

Singer

Silent

Alexander Ritter

Sorrow

Bass

Nicolai Karnolsky

Uncle Bonze

Rúni Brattaberg

Stage

Ginji Kashiwagi

Soprano

Mari Moriya

Cio-Cio-San

Mezzo-soprano

Michal Doron

Suzuki

Conductor

Ivan Repušić

Hrachuhí Bassénz

Tenor

Teodor Ilincai

B.F. Pinkerton

Baritone

Boris Pinkhasovich

Sharpless

Omer Meir Wellber

Stage director

Amon Miyamoto

Set designer

Boris Kudlička

Costume designer

Kenzo Takada

Lighting designer

Fabio Antoci

Video designer

Bartek Macias

Stage combat master

Chorus master

Jonathan Becker

Dramaturge

Johann Casimir Eule

Kristīne Opolais

Christa Mayer

Nicole Chirka

Kate Pinkerton

Freddie De Tommaso

Gabriele Viviani

Aaron Pegram

Goro

Sebastian Wartig

Prince Yamadori

Alexandros Stavrakakis

Rupert Grössinger

The imperial commissioner

Pinkerton's son

Thomas Ebenstein

Semperoper Dresden

Royal Danish Opera

San Francisco Opera

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Dresden

Others

Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden

Tokyo Nikikai Opera Foundation

Italian

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Dresden

Germany

Semperoper

Madama Butterfly Puccini

Public

Madame Butterfly

English

German

Approved

In his production of »Madama Butterfly«, the Japanese director Amon Miyamoto tells the story of Cio-Cio-San and Pinkerton from the point of view of the son of the two main characters. After the son receives a letter from his dying father at the beginning of the opera, he embarks on a journey of discovery that shows him the love of his parents. In our first making-of part, the Japanese director talks about his reading.

At the centre of Giacomo Puccini's Tragedia giapponese, set in Nagasaki at the beginning of the 20th century, is the young geisha Cio-Cio-San, called »Butterfly«. The American Naval Lieutenant Pinkerton enters into a short-term marriage with Cio-Cio-San – according to a possible practice in Japan at the time – and rents the right house for the stay. While for Pinkerton the liaison was planned from the outset as an erotic pleasure, for Cio-Cio-San it means not only the opportunity to escape poverty, but the love of her life ... Even today, the tragic love story, which premiered at La Scala in Milan in 1904, touches hearts, shaken by the realism with which the cultural misunderstandings and their deadly consequences are pointed out. Japanese director Amon Miyamoto, together with star designer Kenzō Takada, presents his own Eastern view of the Japanese-American liaison.

Madame Butterfly by Puccini, Thu 14 Apr 2022, From (2022/2022), Directed by Amon Miyamoto,, Conductor Ivan Repušić, Omer Meir Wellber, Semperoper, Dresden, Germany

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