Madama Butterfly

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Enjoy the guest performance of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" by the Belarus Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Puccini had always shown a strong feeling for background colour in his operas, but this work was his first chance to use the intriguingly foreign element of exoticism. He thoroughly studied original Japanese music and books on Japanese customs, rituals and architecture. The results are reflected in the score of the opera, containing seven authentic Japanese melodies and the themes include the Japanese imperial hymn. However, the love theme of the beautiful and fragile Butterfly is entirely Italian in origin. This blend of oriental exoticism and Italian passion has resulted in one of the most popular operas in the repertoire of opera theatres.

“Madama Butterfly” tells the story of a Japanese girl’s impossible love for an American navy lieutenant. Her love is as tragic and beautiful as the flight of a butterfly at dusk, when the light warms, dazzles, and burns.

Staging Team:
Music Director and Chief Conductor: People’s Artist of Belarus Tatyana Kolomiyceva
Stage Director: the Honoured Artist of the Republic of Belarus Oleg Moralev
Set Designer: Ivan Sanin
Costume Designer: Ivan Peshkur
Chorus Master: People’s Artist of Belarus Nina Lomanovich
Conductors: the Honoured Artist of Ukraine Victor Ploskina, Vyacheslav Volich

Approx. running time: 2 h 50 min (2 intervals)
Performed in Italian, titles in English