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Singer

Tenor

Mergen Sandanov

B.F. Pinkerton

Mezzo-soprano

Tatia Jibladze

Suzuki

Maria Gulik

Baritone

Stefano Meo

Sharpless

Fred Hoffmann

Goro

Bass

Matteo Maria Ferretti

Uncle Bonze

Hojoon Lee

Prince Yamadori

Elizabeth Tredent

Kate Pinkerton

Slaw Rotmann

Uncle Yakusidé

Andrzej Bernagiewicz

The imperial commissioner

Junggeun Choi

The official registrar

Stage director

Joachim Rathke

Conductor

Daniel Carlberg

Chorus master

Gerald Krammer

Lam Tran Dinh

Equipmen

Claudia Spielmann

Soprano

Agnieszka Hauzer

Cio-Cio-San

Elisabeth Raßbach-Külz

The aunt

Cornelia Möhler

The cousin

Anka Perfanova

Cio-Cio San's mother

Sergi Roca Bru

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Theater Kiel

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Italian

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Kiel

Germany

Opernhaus Kiel

MADAME BUTTERFLY

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Madame Butterfly

German

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Madama Butterfly Puccini

Puccinis »Madame Butterfly« war bei der Uraufführung an der Mailänder Scala 1904 zwar der größte Misserfolg seines Lebens, wurde nach mehreren Überarbeitunge...

Nagasaki, around 1900: The geisha Cio-Cio-San, known as Madame Butterfly, is sold by the Japanese marriage agent Goro to the American naval officer Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton for 100 yen. While Pinkerton sees his connection to Cio-Cio-San as "temporary marriage" and vacation enjoyment, Cio-Cio-San considers himself to be his legally wedded wife. Even when he left her in Japan, she believed in vain for three years in his return to her. One day, however, Pinkerton and his American wife Kate appear in Nagasaki to take their child with them to the United States. Cio-Cio-San's illusion of a future together with Pinkerton has been shattered. She only knows one way out of her misfortune ...

Puccini's “Madame Butterfly” was the biggest failure of his life when it was premiered at La Scala in Milan in 1904, but after several revisions it became one of the most frequently performed operas in the repertoire and is one of the prime examples thanks to its colorful, highly emotional and exotic soundscape the entire genus. The European view of two foreign cultures, »Japan« and the »USA«, is at the center of this piece about cultural and gender conflicts, which in 2021 will have to ask completely new questions. The Kiel director Joachim Rathke undertakes this new survey together with the designer Claudia Spielmann, who is very familiar with Japan, in a reading that can also be interpreted as an homage to the genre »opera«.

English

Madame Butterfly by Puccini, From (2021/2022), Directed by Joachim Rathke,, Conductor Daniel Carlberg, Sergi Roca Bru, Opernhaus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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