Organization

Costume designer

Maarja Meeru

Stage director

Robert Annus

Conductor

Risto Joost

Martin Sildos

Lighting designer

Margus Vaigur

Choreographer

Marika Aidla

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Karmen Puis

Suzuki

Set designer

Tenor

David Esteban

B.F. Pinkerton

Soprano

Tamara Kalinkina

Cio-Cio-San

Marcin Bronikowski

Other

Rasmus Kull

Taavi Tampuu

Märt Jakobson

Simo Breede

Eve Kivisaar

Siiri Koodres

Helen Nõmm

Artur Nagel

Theatre Vanemuine

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Vanemuine Opera Choir

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Vanemuine Symphony Orchestra

Italian

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Tartu

Estonia

Madama Butterfly Puccini

Public

Madame Butterfly

English

Estonian

Approved

One of Puccini's most beautiful operas, Madama Butterfly, premiered on February 17, 1904 at Milan's La Scala theater.
In a small cabin near Nagasaki, American Navy Lieutenant Pinkerton and a geisha Chōchō-san, nicknamed Butterfly, get married. Pinkerton pokes fun at the ancient Japanese customs of marriage for nine hundred and ninety-nine years. Although he likes Butterfly, the man plans to take a new wife in his homeland and tie himself to an American woman. But for Butterfly, a man is her whole world...

I liked the moral ambivalence of Annus' production language, the reluctance to dictate judgments to the viewer in poster fashion. In his vision, the conflict of this drama and the cause of the subsequent tragedy seem to lie not so much in unrequited, abandoned or forbidden love (as is usual in operas), but in the norms and taboos set by the surrounding cultural space.

Puccini üks kaunimaid oopereid, „Madama Butterfly”, esietendus 17. veebruaril 1904. aastal Milano La Scala teatris.
Nagasaki lähedal väikeses majakeses abielluvad Ameerika mereväe leitnant Pinkerton ja geiša Chōchō-san, hüüdnimega Butterfly. Pinkerton heidab nalja iidsete jaapani kommete üle, mille kohaselt sõlmitakse abielu üheksasaja üheksakümne üheksaks aastaks. Kuigi Butterfly talle meeldib, on mehel plaanis kodumaal uus naine võtta ja end ameeriklannaga siduda. Butterflyle aga on mees kogu tema maailm…

Mulle meeldis Annuse lavastuskeele moraalne ambivalentsus, soovimatus vaatajale hinnanguid plakatlikul moel ette kirjutada. Tema visioonis näib selle draama konflikt ja hilisema tragöödia põhjus olevat mitte niivõrd vastamata, hüljatud või keelatud armastuses (nagu ooperites tavapäraselt), vaid ümbritseva kultuuriruumi seatud normides ja tabudes.

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Madame Butterfly by Puccini, From (2023/2023), Directed by Robert Annus,, Conductor Risto Joost, Martin Sildos, Theatre Vanemuine, Tartu, Estonia

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