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Madama Butterfly to the San Carlo's Opera House

From 30 April till 13 May 2021

Dal 30 April al 13 May 2021

Giacomo Puccini
MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Japanese Tragedy in three acts

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica


Conductor | Dan Ettinger*

Master of the Chorus | Gea Garatti Ansini

Stage director| Ferzan Özpetek

Set designer | Sergio Tramonti

Costume designer | Alessandro Lai


Cast

Madama Butterfly | Anna Pirozzi (30 April, 4, 6, 8 and 12 May) / Valeria Sepe (2, 5, 7, 11 and 13 May)

F. B. Pinkerton | Giorgio Berrugi (30 April, 4, 6, 8 and 12 May) / Sergio Escobar* (2, 5, 7, 11 and 13 May)

Suzuki | Annalisa Stroppa

Sharpless | Andrzej Filończyk*

Goro | Saverio Fiore

Bonze | Ildo Song

Prince Yamadori | Paolo Orecchia

Kate Pinkerton | Rossella Locatelli

Imperial Commissioner | Enrico Di Geronimo


*debut at Teatro di San Carlo


Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro di San Carlo

Production of Teatro di San Carlo


April - May 2021


SERIE CREMISI

Friday 30 April, h 20.00 - Fee III

Sunday 2 May, h 17.00 - Fee III

Tuesday 4 May, h 20.00 - Fee IV

Wednesday 5 May, h 18.00 - Fee IV

Thursday 6 May, h 18.00 - Fee IV

Friday 7 May, h 20.00 - Fee IV

Saturday 8 May, h 19.00 - Fee III

Tuesday 11 May, h 20.00 - Fee IV

Wednesday 12 May, h 18.00 - Fee IV

Thursday 13 May, h 18.00 - Fee IV


Performances out of Subscription

Language: Sung in Italian with Italian and English surtitles
Running time: about 3 hours, including one interval

The genesis of Butterfly really shows Puccini's intellectual curiosity. He was in London in the summer of 1900 for a performance of Tosca, he attended a play adapted from the Pierre Loti's Madame Crystantheme and he was immediately taken with it. Soon after, he followed meticulously the outline of the libretto by Illica and Giacosa while at the same time gathering ethnic material on Japan thanks to the wife of the Japanese ambassador in Italy. Apart from its premiere at La Scala in Milan which was an anticipated fiasco, the opera has enjoyed a steady series of triumphs to this day. It is a story of pure and betrayed love, of death and anticipation. In Butterfly music is the absolute protagonist, it elicits total emotional participation using the orchestra and the signing to create masks that come alive with oriental colours. Ferzan Özpetek is the director of this recent and critically acclaimed production of Teatro San Carlo. He has set the narrative in the years following the nuclear disaster of Nakasaki, keeping however great respect towards Puccini's original storyline. He only takes the liberty to insert a film fragment during the humming chorus, as a recognizable signature, which also appears in his Traviata.

 

 

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