Name: Madama Butterfly
Start: 2019-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-01-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus

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Singer

Soprano

Yannick-Muriel Noah

Cio-Cio-San

Tenor

George Oniani

B.F. Pinkerton

Mezzo-soprano

Susanne Blattert

Suzuki

Baritone

Giorgos Kanaris

Sharpless

Jonghoon You

Goro

Bass

Tobias Schabel

Uncle Bonze

Johannes Mertes

Prince Yamadori

Emma Sventelius

Kate Pinkerton

Boris Beletskiy

Uncle Yakusidé

Ulrike Gmeiner

The aunt

Jeanette Katzer

The cousin

Johannes Marx

The imperial commissioner

The official registrar

Ji Young Mennekes

Cio-Cio San's mother

Conductor

Hermes Helfricht

Stage director

Mark Daniel Hirsch

Set designer

Helmut Stürmer

Costume designer

Dieter Hauber

Lighting designer

Max Karbe

Chorus master

Marko Medved

Theater Bonn

Orchestra

Beethoven Orchester Bonn

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Choir of the Bonn Theater

Italian

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Bonn

Germany

Opernhaus

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Madama Butterfly Puccini

Madame Butterfly

German

Approved

On the night of its world premiere at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano on 17 February 1904, Giacomo Puccini’s opera, probably his most popular to date, experienced a fiasco: Possibly goaded on by an intrigue, the audience flatly rejected this tragedy of a Japanese woman. This, however, is a fate that the work shares with many other worldwide hits of the operatic canon: Georges Bizet’s CARMEN or Kurt Weill’s RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY only became favourites of opera audiences over time. Giacomo Puccini, however, believed in his work: My Butterfly remains what it is. The most emotional opera that I have ever written! He was to be proved right: Only a few months after the initial debacle, MADAMA BUTTERFLY celebrated a resounding success at Teatro Grande Brescia in a (slightly) modified version.

Nagasaki, Japan, around 1900: Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the American Navy, has fallen in love with 15-year-old Cio-Cio-San, also called Butterfly. Their wedding, conducted according to Japanese ritual, however, is only a formal farce to him, and soon afterwards, his human toy finds herself alone with their son. Three years later, Pinkerton returns to Japan, but not for her sake. With his new wife, he wants to take the child to live with him in America. Cio-Cio-San takes her own life.

English

Madame Butterfly by Puccini, Sat 07 Dec 2019, From (2019/2020), Directed by Mark Daniel Hirsch,, Conductor Hermes Helfricht, Opernhaus, Bonn, Germany

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