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Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Performed for the first time in Bregenz in a spectacular setting, Michael Levine's enchanting stage design brings Japanese flair to Lake Constance.

Opera in three acts
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa after John Luther Long und David Belasco.

Puccini's Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular operas of our time. In the dramatic story of the Japanese geisha Cio-Cio-San, called Butterfly, worlds and values collide: while her American lover feels free and marries an American woman in his homeland, Butterfly, full of love, hope and longing, waits three long years for his return to Japan - together with her child.

Performed for the first time on the Bregenz Seebühne in a spectacular stage setting, Michael Levine's enchanting stage design with its subtle landscape paintings brings Japanese flair to Lake Constance, while stage manager Andreas Homoki says: "With the Seebühne, it is above all the interplay of video and painting that makes it possible to set the stage, including the ink drawings, in ever new moods," which became a magnificent production.

Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) - Barno Ismatullaeva
Suzuk - Annalisa Stroppa
B. F. Pinkerton - Edgaras Montvidas
Sharpless - Brian Mulligan
Goro - Taylan Reinhard
Prince Yamadori - Omer Kobiljak
The Bonze - Stanislav Vorobyov
Kate Pinkerton - Hamida Kristoffersen
The imperial commissioner - Unnsteinn Árnason
The child - Riku Seewald

Prague Philharmonic Choir
Bregenzer Festspielchor
Wiener Symphonier
Conductor - Enrique Mazzola
Stage Director - Andreas Homoki

Film Director – Henning Kasten
Recorded live at the Bregenz Festival, lake stage, 20 & 22 July 2022

Total playing time: 152 minutes
Language: Italian · Subtitles: ENG, GER, FR, SP, JP, KO

Libretto