Organization

Singer

Soprano

Svetlana Aksenova

Cio-Cio-San

Tenor

Sergei Skorokhodov

B.F. Pinkerton

Mezzo-soprano

Laura Verrecchia

Suzuki

Baritone

Alessandro Luongo

Sharpless

Paolo Antognetti

Goro

Francesca Cucuzza

Kate Pinkerton

Bass

Nicolò Ayroldi

Uncle Yakusidé

Nadia Pirazzini

The aunt

Thalida Marina Fogarasi

Francesco Samuele Venuti

The imperial commissioner

Alfonso Zambuto

The official registrar

Elena Cavini

Cio-Cio San's mother

Ramona Gabriela Peter

Lighting designer

Vincent Longuemare

Renzo Ran

Uncle Bonze

Natsuko Kita

The cousin

Chiara Chisu

André Courville

Prince Yamadori

Conductor

Francesco Ivan Ciampa

Stage director

Chiara Muti

Set designer

Leila Fteita

Costume designer

Alessandro Lai

Roman Lyulkin

Chorus master

Lorenzo Fratini

Cristian Saitta

Fondazione del Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Others

Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Orchestra

Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Festival del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Italian

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Florence

Italy

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Madama Butterfly

Public

Madame Butterfly

English

Approved

Madama Butterfly Puccini

After the successes of Manon Lescaut , La bohème and Tosca , the time has come for Puccini to conquer the temple of Italian opera as well. The subject of Madama Butterfly- an opera that made its debut with an initial failure at the Teatro alla Scala on February 17, 1904 - he had chosen it himself after having witnessed a similar drama by David Belasco in London, based on a short story by John Luther Long. The story of the young geisha seduced and abandoned by an American naval officer immediately struck his imagination. Flanked by the proven tandem of librettists Illica and Giacosa, Puccini decided to concentrate the work on the figure of Cio-Cio-San, creating a real monodrama that follows his psychological evolutions from the initial and disarming naivety to the tragic and heroic final resignation. . Madama Butterflyit is an individual drama but it is also an emblem of diametrically opposed worlds and cultures: on the one hand the docile but at the same time resolute geisha, who will pay the price of her life for the error of falling in love with a man who is foreign to her tradition of belonging, and on the other hand, the Yankee Pinkerton, the cynical adventurer unable to feel real emotions and devoted solely to satisfying his passions. Although opposed in the drama, East and West are perfectly combined in the music that is very rich in heterogeneous contaminations: oriental sounds skillfully recreated with the adoption of traditional Japanese melodies, pentaphonic and hexagonal scales, very refined timbral combinations but also compositional elements of the Western musical tradition ( such as the fugato or the Leitmotiv, for example,

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer