Organization

Conductor

Lorenzo Castriota Skanderbeg

Stage director

Paolo Panizza

Chorus master

Matteo Salvemini

Costume designer

Valerio Maggioni

Set designer

Lighting designer

Fiammetta Baldiserri

Singer

Soprano

Cristina Piperno

Cio-Cio-San

Mezzo-soprano

Tatiana Shumkova

Suzuki

Ombretta Mazza

Kate Pinkerton

Tenor

Cristiano Olivieri

B.F. Pinkerton

Baritone

Valdis Jansons

Sharpless

Gregory Bonfatti

Goro

Paolo Gabellini

Prince Yamadori

Bass

Luca Gallo

Uncle Bonze

Gianfranco Battagli

Uncle Yakusidé

Giuseppe Semprini Cesari

The imperial commissioner

Marco Cevoli

The official registrar

Grazia Ciani

Cio-Cio San's mother

Patrizia Garattoni

The aunt

Elena Facchini

The cousin

Others

Coro Lirico città di Rimini Amintore Galli

Orchestra

Chernivtsi Philharmonic Orchestra

Palacongressi di Rimini

Madama Butterfly -  (Madame Butterfly)

Rimini

Italy

Palacongressi di Rimini - IEG Expo

Sala dell’Anfiteatro

Madama Butterfly Puccini

Public

Madame Butterfly

Approved

Celebrate New Year 2016 at the Palacongressi di Rimini with Giacomo Puccini's opera in three acts, Madama Butterfly, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica.  

The spectacle, staged by Opera Futura, in collaboration with Coro Lirico Città di Rimini Amintore Galli, will be directed by Paolo Panizza (who previously directed La Traviata, Rimini 2013 and The Merry Widow, Rimini 2014).

Madama Butterfly, defined in the score and libretto as a "Japanese tragedy", was performed for the first time in 1904 at Teatro alla Scala, Milan and tells the story of young Cio Cio San and her naive and unrequited love for a United States naval officer and her vain hope of his return to Nagasaki.

This is one of the most engaging and romantic lyrical dramas in the history of opera, in which unfortunately love does not triumph and the great illusion of the protagonist's happiness, in keeping with melodramatic tradition, results in tragedy.

English

Madame Butterfly by Puccini, From (2016/2016), Directed by Paolo Panizza,, Conductor Lorenzo Castriota Skanderbeg, Palacongressi di Rimini - IEG Expo, Rimini, Italy

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

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Program, About & Synopsis

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Further reading

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