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