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Organization

Singer

Soprano

Ermonela Jaho

Cio-Cio-San

Hui He

Mezzo-soprano

Enkelejda Shkosa

Suzuki

Gemma Coma-Alabert

Marifé Nogales

Kate Pinkerton

Tenor

Jorge de León

B.F. Pinkerton

Andrea Carè

Vincenzo Costanzo

Baritone

Angel Odena

Sharpless

Vladimir Stoyanov

Luis Cansino

Francisco Vas

Goro

Bass

Fernando Radó

Uncle Bonze

Scott Wilde

Miguel Angel Arias

Uncle Yakusidé

Conductor

Marco Armiliato

Stage director

Mario Gas

Set designer

Ezio Frigerio

Costume designer

Franca Squarciapino

Lighting designer

Vinicio Cheli

Chorus master

Andrés Máspero

Teatro Real de Madrid

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Madrid

Spain

Madama Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini, one of the most performed operas on stages around the world. The tragic story of geisha Cio Cio San, better known as Madama Butterfly thrills any audience for Puccini's innate talent. A story that narrates the hard struggle between two unrecognizable civilizations. The story is situated, this time, in a different way through the stage direction of Mario Gas that places the narration on a film set of the 30s, with which he proposes three simultaneous perspectives to be able to enjoy even more of this moving classic signed by Giacomo Puccini.

Temporary handcuffs were a widespread reality in Japan in the late nineteenth century. The West, led by the United States, had established diplomatic and commercial relations with the country by mid-century, and the fascination with the cradle of geisha had spread like wildfire. The influence of the East – an Orient imagined from afar – would be reflected in works by a wide palette of European and North American artists, and would continue to nourish Western cultural life well into the twentieth century. In this vein, the character of Butterfly is a crude embodiment of the conflict between two irreconcilable civilizations, one of which overwhelms the other. A man of fine theatrical instinct, Puccini masterfully portrays the fragility of a geisha in love who naively believes herself to be reciprocated by a handsome officer of the US Navy, in a score in which conveniently harmonized traditional Japanese melodies are evoked. The fiasco that meant the premiere of Madama Butterfly in Milan did not stop the composer in his efforts to carry out what he himself considered his most sincere and expressive work. Time would eventually prove him right. Mario Gas places the story on a film set in the 30s and proposes three simultaneous perspectives through which to live this moving drama: the opera itself, the cinematographic recording that is made of it and its reproduction in black and white on a large screen.

Teatro Real

Afascinating opera performance,from the repertoire of Giacomo Puccini,staged at Teatro Real.As one of the most universally loved operas,it depicts the tragic story of geisha Cio-Cio San(Madame Butterfly)as she falls in love with and weds American naval officer Pinkerton who unbeknownst to her-is looking foramarriage of convenience.Adramatic tale illustrating two irreconcilable civilizations at the beginning of the twentieth century,framed ina1930s cinema set by stage director Mario Gas,and conveyed through three simultaneous perspectives,foraunique experience.

Madama Butterfly Puccini

Madame Butterfly

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