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2019 / AROP evening / Opera
06 Nov.

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

For his Madame Chrysanthème, Pierre Loti drew on memories of his own visit to Japan in 1885. When composing Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini was inspired by the popular melodies and sonorities of Japanese voices. However, in the literary work, as in the opera, the heroine remains the same: Kiku-san or Cio‑Cio‑san, a young geisha betrayed by her western husband, the symbol of the meeting of two different worlds. Robert Wilson’s ethereal production espouses to perfection the dramatic intensity and underlying violence of this thoroughly Japanese tragedy.

Madama Butterfly

Production de 1993 - Robert Wilson

  • Music

    Giacomo Puccini

  • Libretto

    Luigi Illica

  • Libretto

    Giuseppe Giacosa

  • Conductor

    Giacomo Sagripanti

  • Director

    Robert Wilson

  • Set design

    Robert Wilson

  • Lighting design

    Heinrich Brunke

  • Lighting design

    Robert Wilson

  • Costume design

    Frida Parmeggiani

  • Choreography

    Suzushi Hanayagi

  • Dramaturgy

    Holm Keller

Cast

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Dinara
Alieva

Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)

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Marie-Nicole
Lemieux

Suzuki

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Dmytro
Popov

B.F. Pinkerton

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Laurent
Naouri

Sharpless

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Rodolphe
Briand

Goro

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Tomasz
Kumiega

Il Principe Yamadori (Le Prince Yamadori)

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Jeanne
Ireland

Kate Pinkerton

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Robert
Pomakov

Lo Zio bonzo (Le Bonze)

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Jian-Hong
Zhao

Yakuside

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Chae Wook
Lim

Il Commissario Imperiale

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Hyoung-Min
Oh

L'Ufficiale del registro

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Laura
Agnoloni

La madre di Cio-Cio San

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Carole
Colineau

La Zia

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Sylvie
Delaunay

La Cugina

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris