Name: Madama Butterfly
Start: 2023-01-14T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-01-14T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Alaleona

Organization

Conductor

Marco Gatti

Stage director

Ambra Vespasiani

Ettore Nova

Set designer

Wang Xuanjun

Wang Zihao

G M Michettoni

Costume designer

Danila d'Agostina

Choreographer

Lucilla Seghetti

Singer

Soprano

Samantha Sapienza

Cio-Cio-San

Tenor

Gianmarco Latini

B.F. Pinkerton

Mezzo-soprano

Suzuki

Baritone

Sharpless

Fabio Aureli

Goro

Giada Zocchi

Kate Pinkerton

Marco Guarini

Prince Yamadori

Bass

Danilo Paludi

Uncle Bonze

Domenico Maglioni

The imperial commissioner

Others

Coro Lirico Romano

Orchestra

Orchestra da Camera del Piceno

Teatro Alaleona

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Fermo

Italy

Madama Butterfly Puccini

Public

Madame Butterfly

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Contralto

Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

E’ un’opera in tre atti definita nello spartito e nel libretto “tragedia giapponese” e dedicata alla regina d’Italia Elena di Montenegro. La prima rappresentazione ebbe luogo al Teatro alla Scala di Milano il 17 febbraio del 1904 per la stagione  di Carnevale e Quaresima.

Durante il soggiorno a Nagasaki Pinkerton, Ufficiale della Marina Americana, sposa la geisha quindicenne Cio-Cio-San. Il matrimonio per l’americano è solo un gioco, fatto per vanità e spirito d’avventura, diversamente da Butterfly la quale si è innamorata di lui tanto da rinnegare fede e famiglia. Poco dopo l’Ufficiale ritorna in America e non manda più sue notizie per tre anni.

Butterfly però, forte di un amore ardente e tenace, aspetta il suo ritorno “con sicura fede”e, pur struggendosi nella lunga attesa accanto al bimbo nato dal breve matrimonio, continua a ripetere a tutti la sua incrollabile fiducia nel ritorno dell’amato, rifiutando le proposte dei pretendenti, trascorrendo la vita quasi in miseria, aiutata dal fedele Suzuki.

Per toglierle ogni illusione, il Console Sharpless si reca da Butterfly per leggerle la lettera ricevuta da Pinkerton in cui egli annuncia il suo ritorno con la moglie americana Kate. La lettura però è continuamente interrotta da Cio-Cio-San che, ingenuamente, crede che il marito torni da lei.

All’improvviso un colpo di cannone annuncia l’arrivo di una nave da guerra nel porto; è la nave di Pinkerton.

Purtroppo le cose si rivelano presto ben diverse da come Butterfly sperava. Pinkerton e la moglie sono tornati per portare il bambino via con loro.

Di fronte all’evidenza dei fatti Butterfly comprende la sua grande illusione, la felicità sognata accanto all’uomo amato è svanita del tutto e decide quindi di scomparire dalla scena del mondo.

In silenzio, senza clamore, dopo aver abbracciato disperatamente il figlio, si conficca un pugnale nel petto facendo harakiri.

Quando Pinkerton, sconvolto dal rimorso, entrerà nella casa di Butterfly per chiederle perdono, sarà troppo tardi; la piccola geisha ha terminato di soffrire.

italiano

It is an opera in three acts defined in the score and libretto as "Japanese tragedy" and dedicated to the Queen of Italy Elena of Montenegro. The first performance took place at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on February 17, 1904 for the Carnival and Lent season.

During his stay in Nagasaki, Pinkerton, an officer in the American Navy, marries the fifteen-year-old geisha Cio-Cio-San. Marriage for the American is just a game, made out of vanity and a spirit of adventure, unlike Butterfly who fell in love with him so much that she renounced faith and family. A little later the Officer returned to America and sent no more news of him for three years.

However, Butterfly, strengthened by an ardent and tenacious love, awaits his return "with sure faith" and, while pining in the long wait next to the child born of the short marriage, she continues to repeat to everyone her unshakable faith in the return of her beloved, refusing the proposals of the suitors, spending her life almost in poverty, helped by the faithful Suzuki.

To remove all illusions from her, Consul Sharpless goes to Butterfly to read her the letter received from Pinkerton in which he announces his return with his American wife Kate. However, the reading is continually interrupted by Cio-Cio-San who naively believes that her husband is returning to her.

Suddenly a cannon shot announces the arrival of a warship in the port; it is Pinkerton's ship.

Unfortunately, things soon turn out to be quite different from what Butterfly had hoped. Pinkerton and his wife have returned to take the child away with them.

Faced with the evidence of the facts Butterfly understands her great illusion, the happiness dreamed next to the man she loves has completely vanished and therefore decides to disappear from the scene of the world.

In silence, without clamor, after desperately embracing his son, he thrusts a dagger into his chest doing harakiri.

When Pinkerton, distraught with remorse, enters Butterfly's house to ask her forgiveness, it will be too late; the little geisha has finished suffering.

English

Madame Butterfly by Puccini, From (2023/2023), Directed by Ambra Vespasiani, Ettore Nova,, Conductor Marco Gatti, Teatro Alaleona, Fermo, Italy

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