Madame Butterfly by Puccini, so 03 bře 2001, Od (2001/2001), Režie Marielle Kahn,, Dirigent Anne Randine Øverby, Bergen Arenum, Bergen, Norway

Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" is now presented in the exhibition hall Arenum, in the period 28 February - 10 March 2001. In this connection, we have prepared a total concept scenographically and in terms of costume; where everything is produced here in Bergen. Only Carmen has achieved a similar popularity as Madame Butterfly, which is a tragic drama in the Japanese environment with fidelity, betrayal and suicide. Even someone who knows nothing about music hears that Puccini has used elements of Japanese music and oriental use of the instruments, but without for a moment losing the Italian operatic tone. Here there are more melodies that are easier to remember than in any other opera. Puccini himself believed that this was the opera in which he had invested much of his heart and talent. At least it was the one of all his operas that he himself preferred.