Another Butterfly in Ghent and Antwerp

admin_mowp — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:47:37 +0000

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen has just announced a cast change with Irish soprano Celine Byrne replacing Elena Guseva in the role of Cio-Cio-San. Puccini’s Madama Butterfly will be on the bill at the Antwerp Opera from 8 September and then at the Ghent Opera from 4 October 2024, in a production by Mariano Pensotti conducted by Daniela Candillari. Belgian-Albanian Ana Naqe completes the cast, alternating in the role of Cio-Cio-San, with Ovidiu Purcel and Łukasz Załęski as Pinkerton, young Belgian mezzo-soprano Lotte Verstaen as Suzuki and Vincenzo Neri as Sharpless.

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Madama Butterfly, paradise lost in Rome

admin_mowp — Mon, 15 May 2023 08:00:21 +0000

The new production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Rome Opera, from 16 to 25 June 2023, is likely to be the talk of the town. Although it marks the return of Italian soprano Eleonora Buratto as Cio-cio-san after her success at the Metropolitan in New York, and although Roberto Abbado, the highly experienced conductor, is conducting Puccini’s masterpiece for the first time, it is director Àlex Ollé‘s opening remarks that set the scene. Puccini’s orientalist drama is restored to the modern eye through his cinematic and hyper-realistic vision, in which the dream of love of the young geisha Cio-cio-san degenerates, according to Àlex Ollé, into a “lost paradise” where Pinkerton’s thirst for power becomes “the symbol of a neoliberal tsunami, the last consequence of a ferocious colonialism capable of destroying everything”.

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Another Butterfly in Ghent and Antwerp

Madama Butterfly, paradise lost in Rome