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2024 / AROP evening / Opera
16 Oct.

Madame Butterfly

    Opéra Bastille

    19h30

    Duration
    2h45

    Dress Cocktail attire

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  • 1st part
    19h30
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h20
  • 2nd part
    20h50
  • End of the performance
    22h15
  • Supper
    22h30

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.

Madama Butterfly

Production de 1993 - Robert Wilson

  • Music

    Giacomo Puccini

  • Conductor
    Speranza Scappucci
  • Chorus master
    Alessandro Di Stefano

  • 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

Cast

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Elena
Stikhina

Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)

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Aude
Extrémo

Suzuki

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Stefan
Pop

B.F. Pinkerton

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Christopher
Maltman

Sharpless

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Carlo
Bosi

Goro

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Andres
Cascante

Il Principe Yamadori

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Vartan
Gabrielian

Lo Zio bonzo

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Sofia
Anisimova

Kate Pinkerton

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Young-Woo
Kim

Yakuside

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Bernard
Arrieta

Il Commissario Imperiale

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Hyunsik
Zee

L'Ufficiale del registro

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Marianne
Chandelier

La Madre di Cio-Cio-San

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Liliana
Faraon

La Zia

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Stéphanie
Loris

La Cugina

The Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus

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