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

Tenore

Brian Jagde

B. F. Pinkerton

Noah Stewart

Baritono

Gabriele Viviani

Sharpless

Carlo Bosi

Goro

Mezzosoprano

Enkelejda Shkosa

Suzuki

Basso

Jeremy White

Lo zio Bonzo

Yuriy Yurchuk

Il Principe Yamadori

Samuel Johnson

Il commissario imperiale

Anush Hovhannisyan

Kate Pinkerton

Direzione d'orchestra

Nicola Luisotti

Regia

Moshe Leiser

Patrice Caurier

Soprano

Alexia Voulgaridou

Cio-Cio-San

Kristīne Opolais

Royal Opera House

Madama Butterfly

Londra

Regno Unito

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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)

Madama Butterfly by Puccini, gio 09 apr 2015, Da (2015/2015), Diretto da Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier,, Direttore d'orchestra Nicola Luisotti, Royal Opera House, Londra, Regno Unito

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