- Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly
J. Puccini
opera in two acts
Libretto - Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa after the drama by David Belasco.
Stage Director - Yuri Alexandrov
Conductors - Mikhail Sinkevich, Alexey Nyaga
Production Designer - Vyacheslav Okunev
Choirmaster - Alexander Zorin
Choreographer - Nadezhda Kalinina
Cast
Cio-Cio-san - Anastasia Averina, Natalya Landovskaya, Olga Maslova
Suzuki – Zhanna Zapolskaya, Evgeniya Gudkova, Margarita Chemduzh
B.F.Pinkerton - Pavel Polyaninov , Victor Aleshkov, Maksim Aksenov
Sharpless – Pavel Nazarov, Rinat Chuganaev
For more than a hundred years this work has been performed on the world's theatrical stages. The secret of the constant success of the opera is in marvelous sounding of Puccini music, which united European traditions and national Japanese melodies and exotic story. Love of young Japanese geisha Cio-Cio San, known as Butterfly ("butterfly") and US Navy Lieutenant Pinkerton is initially doomed. Treachery and cruelty of Western civilization become the cause of the tragedy. True love, loyalty and selflessness embodies the fragile Butterfly, the bearer of the ancient traditions of the Land of the Rising Sun.
"The story of Cio-Cio San, in my opinion,is very modern, - says director Yuri Alexandrov. - At all times, woman was the bearer of love, keeper of family values. Butterfly was born for love, but when her heart is broken and then the child is taken away, she dies. Our performance – is cry in defense of Women. "
Presented in Italian with simultaneous translation on the creeping line.
Premiere date: 7 November 2012
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
For viewers over 12 years old
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