Name: Madama Butterfly
Start: 2016-05-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-05-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Lucie Stern Theatre

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Organization

Direzione d'orchestra

José Luis Moscovich

Regia

Eugene Brancoveanu

Costumi

Claire Townsend

Scenografia

Peter Crompton

West Bay Opera

Soprano

Olga Chernisheva

Cio-Cio-San

Mezzosoprano

Kristen Choi

Suzuki

Baritono

Igor Vieira

Sharpless

Basso

Kiril Havezov

Lo zio Bonzo

Tenore

Ryan Bradford

Il Principe Yamadori

Il commissario imperiale

Carolyn Bacon

Kate Pinkerton

Silenzioso

Zoe G. Lai

Dolore

David Gustafson

B. F. Pinkerton

Luci

Edward Hunter

Trucco

Lisa Cross

Sound designer

Tod Nixon

italiano

Madama Butterfly

Palo Alto

Stati Uniti

Lucie Stern Theatre

Madama Butterfly Puccini

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Act 3, Scene 2 of West Bay Opera's production of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly. Recorded live at the Lucie Stern Theater on 5/29/16.  José Luis Moscovich, conductor; Eugene Brancoveanu, Director. Tenor David Gustavson as Pinkerton; baritone Igor Vieira as Sharpless; mezzo-soprano Kristen Choi as Suzuki; soprano Carolyn Bacon as Kate. More info at wbopera.org

World Premiere: Teatro alla Scala, Milan - Feb 17, 1904
WBO Premiere:  May 15, 1959
Pictured: interior of the Teatro alla Scala

In early 1900’s Nagasaki, an American naval officer weds a young Japanese woman. Months later he leaves her, unaware that she is pregnant with his son, and promises to come back. Three years later, she is nearly destitute and shunned by her family for becoming a Christian, but she is steadfast in her conviction that he will return. He does return, with a new American wife, remorseful but ready to take his son back with him. Devastated, Butterfly gives up the child and commits suicide.  Madama Butterfly is based on the play by David Belasco, which was very popular when it premiered in 1900. The play's success reflected the shock waved sent around the world by the American triumph in the Spanish-American war, as a result of which the once mighty Spanish Empire lost Cuba and the Philippines. The young and socially awkward Pinkerton serves as an allegory for the nascent American empire, well meaning but not fully aware of its impact on the ancient cultures with which it came into contact.  This is considered Puccini's dramatically most effective and powerful score.  It is one of the 10 most performed operas in the repertoire.

English

Madama Butterfly by Puccini, Da (2016/2016), Diretto da Eugene Brancoveanu,, Direttore d'orchestra José Luis Moscovich, Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto, Stati Uniti

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