AROP evening — Opera

Madama Butterfly

16 Oct. 2024

  • 2h45 with 1 intermission
  • Opéra Bastille
  • Cocktail attire

Madama Butterfly

Production de 1993 - Robert Wilson

  • Conductor

    Speranza Scappucci; Alessandro Di Stefano

  • Music

    Giacomo Puccini

  • Libretto

    Giuseppe Giacosa

  • Libretto

    Luigi Illica

  • Stage, set and lighting design

    Robert Wilson

  • Co-stage director

    Giuseppe Frigeni

  • Directoc collaboration

    Marina Frigeni

  • Costume design

    Frida Parmeggiani

  • Lighting design in collaboration

    Heinrich Brunke

  • Lights back on

    A.J. Weissbard

  • Choreography

    Suzushi Hanayagi

  • Dramaturgy

    Holm Keller

Poor Madama Butterfly! The 15-year-old geisha, who has renounced her family and Japanese traditions for the love of an American naval officer, finds herself abandoned in favour of a Western wife. Giacomo Puccini used this classic theme of a woman seduced and abandoned to create an opera with lush orchestration and burning lyricism.

Premiered in 1904 at La Scala Milan, his score, full of oriental colours, vividly conveys the contrast between Lieutenant Pinkerton’s brutality and the vulnerability of Butterfly, who is as fragile as a butterfly’s wings.

For Robert Wilson, this Japanese tragedy proves the ideal environment in which to display his signature formalism. Far from the traditional fans and cherry branches, the director uses stylised acting and a stripped-down space to allow the melodic lines to blossom in all their purity.  

The Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Madama Butterfly

Production de 1993 - Robert Wilson

  • Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)

    Elena Stikhina

  • Suzuki

    Aude Extrémo

  • B.F. Pinkerton

    Stefan Pop

  • Sharpless

    Christopher Maltman

  • Goro

    Carlo Bosi

  • Il Principe Yamadori

    Andres Cascante

  • Lo Zio bonzo

    Vartan Gabrielian

  • Kate Pinkerton

    Sofia Anisimova

  • Yakuside

    Young-Woo Kim

  • Il Commissario Imperiale

    Bernard Arrieta

  • L'Ufficiale del registro

    Hyunsik Zee

  • La Madre di Cio-Cio-San

    Marianne Chandelier

  • La Zia

    Liliana Faraon

  • La Cugina

    Stéphanie Loris

  • 19:30

    First part

  • 20:20

    Intermission cocktail

  • 20:50

    Second part

  • 22:15

    End of the performance

  • 22:30

    Supper

Madame Butterfly (saison 24/25) - Acte 3

1 podcast

[EXTRAIT] MADAME BUTTERFLY de Puccini - "Un bel dì, vedremo" (Eleonora Buratto)

1 video

[EXTRAIT] MADAME BUTTERFLY de Puccini - "Addio, fiorito asil" (Stefan Pop)

1 video

[EXTRAIT] MADAME BUTTERFLY de Puccini - "Vieni, amor mio!" (Eleonora Buratto, Stefan Pop)

1 video

[EXTRAIT] MADAME BUTTERFLY de Giacomo - "Quest'obi pomposa" (Eleonora Buratto, Stefan Pop)

1 video

Madame Butterfly (season 24/25)

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