Name: Madama Butterfly
Start: 2015-03-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-04-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

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Organization

Ténor

Brian Jagde

B.F. Pinkerton

Noah Stewart

Baryton

Gabriele Viviani

Sharpless

Carlo Bosi

Goro

Mezzo-soprano

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Enkelejda Shkoza

Suzuki

Basse

Baryton-basse

Jeremy White

Lo zio Bonzo (Le Bonze)

Yuriy Yurchuk

Le Prince Yamadori

Samuel Johnson

Le commissaire Impérial

Soprano

Anush Hovhannisyan

Kate Pinkerton

Direction d'orchestre

Nicola Luisotti

Mise en scène

Mise en scène (+1)

moshe leiser

Patrice Caurier

Alexia Voulgaridou

Cio-Cio-San

Kristīne Opolais

Royal Ballet and Opera

Royal Opera House

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Londres

Royaume-Uni

Opéra

Madame Butterfly

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Directors Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier on their production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/butterfly


Giacomo Puccini was entranced by David Belasco’s play Madame Butterfly (based on a popular short story by John Luther Long) when he saw it in London in 1900. Harnessing the talents of librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (with whom Puccini had created La bohème and Tosca), he adapted Cio-Cio-San's tragic tale for the operatic stage. Although the premiere at La Scala, Milan, in 1904 was poorly received, that same year Puccini revised and restaged the opera in Brescia, to great acclaim. Madama Butterfly became a hugely popular opera with performers and audiences alike, and remains one of Puccini's most performed works.

The romantic exoticism of 19th-century European images of Japan inspired Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s production with its elegant oriental sets and costumes. Puccini drew on Japanese folk melodies for the score, one of his most evocative and atmospheric. In Act I, Cio-Cio-San expresses her radiant happiness in ‘Ancora un passo’, and the two lovers rapturously declare their love for each other in the passionate duet ‘Viene la sera’. In Act II the mood becomes more pensive, as in ‘Un bel di vedremo’ Cio-Cio-San longs for the ‘fine day’ when her husband, Pinkerton, will return to her.

Directors Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier on Madama Butterfly (The Royal Opera)

Madame Butterfly by Puccini, lun. 06 avr. 2015, Du (2015/2015), Dirigé par moshe leiser, Patrice Caurier, Chef d'orchestre Nicola Luisotti, Royal Opera House, Londres, Royaume-Uni

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