Organization

Singer

Soprano

Carmen Gurban

Cio-Cio-San

Tenor

Marius Budoiu

B.F. Pinkerton

Hector Lopez

Baritone

Geani Brad

Sharpless

Florin Estefan

Mezzo-soprano

Iulia Merca

Suzuki

Alexandra Lesiu

Florin Pop

Goro

Bass

Corneliu Huțanu

Uncle Bonze

George Godja

Prince Yamadori

Molnár Zoltán

The imperial commissioner

Cezara Diță

Kate Pinkerton

Gelu Moldovan

The official registrar

Conductor

David Crescenzi

Stage director

Matteo Mazzoni

Set designer

Benito Leonori

Costume designer

Patricia Toffolutti

Video designer

Mario Spinaci

Lighting designer

Ludovico Gobbi

Chorus master

Emil Maxim

Mihaela Bogdan

Elisabetta Salvatori

Corneliu Felecan

Opera Națională Română Cluj-Napoca

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Cluj-Napoca

Romania

Opera Romana Cluj-Napoca

Madama Butterfly Puccini

Public

Madame Butterfly

Approved

A Fondazione ,,Pergolesi Spontini” co-production, presented under the high patronage of Italian Embassy

Opera in three acts (libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after David Belasco, John Luther Long and Pierre Loti)

Recommended Age: 5+

It was London in 1900 where Giacomo Puccini – who was supervising the Covent Garden production of his recent opera Tosca – was profoundly marked after seing David Belasco’s play Madama Butterfly. The theme of the short and unfotunate love story between the young Japanese, who gives up to her family, culture and religion to marry the american officer B. F. Pinkerton and who, after a long waiting for her lover’s return commits suicide, met precisely the composer’s expectations. Puccini spent the next two years composing Madama Butterfly, undertaking some serious research on japanese music and tradition. His results can be easily found within the score that also includes Nipponese melodies and american anthem fragments.

Despite the cautiousness and carefulness of Puccini during the elaboration, Madama Butterfly’s premiere, held in 1904 at Teatro alla Scala in Milano, met some unfriendly reactions that determined the composer to retract his opera from the repertoire and to make a completely revision. The new Madama Butterfly found itself in the limelight for the first time at Brescia in the same year, being highly successful, and the following reviews resulted in a highly popular opera, similar to its predecessor – La bohème (1896).

The performance has one break and ends around 9.15 p.m.

English

Madame Butterfly by Puccini, From (2018/2018), Directed by Matteo Mazzoni, Mihaela Bogdan,, Conductor David Crescenzi, Opera Romana Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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