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Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Dirigent

Dirigent (+4)

Daniele Gatti

Regisseur

Lorenzo Mariani

Set designer

Alessandro Camera

Kostuum ontwerper

Silvia Aymonino

Koor meester

Koor meester (+2)

Lorenzo Fratini

Orchestra

Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Chorus

Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Sopraan

Carolina López Moreno

Cio-Cio-San

Mezzosopraan (+2)

Marvic Monreal

Suzuki

Bariton (+2)

Nicola Alaimo

Sharpless

Licht ontwerper

Licht ontwerper (+1)

Marco Filibeck

Bas (+2)

Bozhidar Bozhkilov

Oom Bonzo

Bariton (+4)

Min Kim

Prins Yamadori

Assistent Lichtontwerper

Jenny Cappelloni

Tenor

Piero Pretti

B.F. Pinkerton

Vincenzo Costanzo

After the successes of Manon Lescaut, La bohème and Tosca, the time has come for Puccini to conquer the temple of Italian opera as well. The subject of Madama Butterfly - an opera which debuted with an initial failure at the Teatro alla Scala on February 17, 1904 - he had chosen himself after having witnessed a similar drama by David Belasco in London, based on a short story by John Luther Long. The story of the young geisha seduced and abandoned by an American naval officer immediately struck Puccini's imagination. With the librettists Illica and Giacosa, Puccini decided to focus the work on the figure of Cio-Cio-San, creating a real monodrama that follows her psychological evolutions from the initial and disarming naivety to the tragic and heroic final resignation. Madama Butterfly is an individual drama but it is also an emblem of opposed worlds and cultures: on the one hand the docile but at the same time resolute geisha, who will pay the price of her life for the mistake of falling in love with a man who is foreign to her tradition of belonging, and on the other hand the Yankee Pinkerton, the cynical adventurer unable to feel real emotions and devoted solely to the satisfaction of his passions. Although opposed in the drama, East and West are perfectly combined in the music that is very rich in heterogeneous contaminations: oriental sounds skillfully recreated with the adoption of traditional Japanese melodies, pentaphonic and hexagonal scales, very refined timbral combinations but also compositional elements of the Western musical tradition (such as the fugato or the Leitmotiv, for example, or the direct quotation of the American anthem).

Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), Puccini

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Cio-Cio-San

Suzuki

Sharpless

Lo zio Bonzo

Il principe Yamadori

B.F. Pinkerton

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Koor meester

Licht ontwerper

Assistent Lichtontwerper

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Producent

Producent

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Orkest

Koor

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Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Florence, Italië