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Theater Bonn

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Tenor

George Oniani

B.F. Pinkerton

Mezzo-soprano

Susanne Blattert

Suzuki

Baritone

Giorgos Kanaris

Sharpless

Bass

Tobias Schabel

Uncle Bonze

Johannes Mertes

Prince Yamadori

Soprano

Ulrike Gmeiner

The aunt

Johannes Marx

The imperial commissioner

Ji Young Mennekes

Cio-Cio San's mother

Stage director

Mark Daniel Hirsch

Set designer

Helmut Stürmer

Costume designer

Dieter Hauber

Lighting designer

Max Karbe

Yannick-Muriel Noah

Cio-Cio-San

Chorus master

Marco Medved

Conductor

Dirk Kaftan

Hermes Helfricht

Anna Princeva

Carl Rumstadt

Tae Hwan Yun

Goro

Mark Morouse

Sarah Mehnert

Kate Pinkerton

Mary Rosada

The cousin

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Beethoven Orchester Bonn

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Choir of the Bonn Theater

Extras of the Theater Bonn

Pavel Kudinov

Jongmyung Lim

Uncle Yakusidé

Eduardo Aladrén

Fleuranne Brockway

Karin Strobos

Rafael Bruck

Daegyun Jeong

Dmitri Vargin

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Maria Teresa Leva

Italian

Cristina Pardo Ramírez

Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly Puccini

Public

Madame Butterfly

German

Approved

On the night of its world premiere at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano on 17 February 1904, Giacomo Puccini’s opera, probably his most popular to date, experienced a fiasco: Possibly goaded on by an intrigue, the audience flatly rejected this tragedy of a Japanese woman. This, however, is a fate that the work shares with many other worldwide hits of the operatic canon: Georges Bizet’s CARMEN or Kurt Weill’s RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY only became favourites of opera audiences over time. Giacomo Puccini, however, believed in his work: My Butterfly remains what it is. The most emotional opera that I have ever written! He was to be proved right: Only a few months after the initial debacle, MADAMA BUTTERFLY celebrated a resounding success at Teatro Grande Brescia in a (slightly) modified version.

Nagasaki, Japan, around 1900: Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the American Navy, has fallen in love with 15-year-old Cio-Cio-San, also called Butterfly. Their wedding, conducted according to Japanese ritual, however, is only a formal farce to him, and soon afterwards, his human toy finds herself alone with their son. Three years later, Pinkerton returns to Japan, but not for her sake. With his new wife, he wants to take the child to live with him in America. Cio-Cio-San takes her own life.

English

Madama Butterfly by Puccini, Thu 07 Mar 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Mark Daniel Hirsch,, Conductor Dirk Kaftan, Hermes Helfricht

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