opera Puccini's Madama Butterfly Àlex Ollé (stage director), Brian Castles-Onion (conductor) — With Georgy Vasiliev (Pinkerton) and Hiromi Omura (Cio Cio San)

Àlex Ollé (stage director), Brian Castles-Onion (conductor) — With Georgy Vasiliev (Pinkerton) and Hiromi Omura (Cio Cio San)

Puccini's Madama Butterfly Àlex Ollé (stage director), Brian Castles-Onion (conductor) — With Georgy Vasiliev (Pinkerton) and Hiromi Omura (Cio Cio San)

About

Discover Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, performed by La Fura dels Baus and Opera Australia! One of the most beloved of all operas, Madama Butterfly recounts the story of Pinkerton, an American real estate developer who comes to Japan for business, and Cio-Cio-San (meaning “Madame Butterfly”), who falls madly in love with this successful American. Returning after three years of absence and now married to another woman, Pinkerton discovers that Cio-Cio-San has a child—and that he is the father. When he is drawn back to his other family, Cio-Cio-San understands that he has abandoned her and chooses to take her own life.

Àlex Ollé | Stage director
Alfons Flores | Associate set designer
Lluc Castells | Costume designer
Alexander Koppelmann | Lighting
Tony David Cray | Sound engineer

Georgy Vasiliev | Tenor (B.F. Pinkerton)
Hiromi Omura | Soprano (Cio Cio San)
Graeme Macfarlane | Tenor (Goro)
Anna Yun | Mezzo-soprano (Suzuki)
Michael Honeyman | Baritone (Sharpless)
Sitiveni Talei | Baritone (Prince Yamadori)
Celeste Lazarenko | Soprano (Kate Pinkerton)
Gennadi Dubinsky | Bass (The Bonze)

Opera Australia Chorus
Anthony Hunt | Chorus director

Opera Australia Orchestra
Aubrey Murphy | Co-concertmaster
Brian Castles-Onion | Conductor

Program

Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly
- I: Introduction
- I: "E soffitto... e pareti..."
- I: "Questa è la cameriera"
- I: "Dovunque al mondo"
- I: "Quale smania vi prende!"
- I: " Quanto Cielo! "
- I: "Gran ventura"
- I: "L'Imperial Commissario"
- I: "Vieni, amor mio!"
- I: "Ieri son salita tutta sola in segreto alla Missione"
- I: "Ed Eccoci in Famiglia"
- I: "Viene la sera"
- I: "Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia"
- I: "Vogliatemi bene"
- II: "E Izaghi ed Izanami, Sarundasico e Kami"
- II: "Un bel dì vedremo"
- II: "C'è. Entrate"
- II: "Non lo sapete insomma"
- II: "A voi però giurerei fede costante"
- II: "Ora a noi"
- II: "E questo? E questo?"
- II: "Che tua madre dovrà prenderti in braccio"
- II: "Io scendo al piano"
- II: "Vespa! Rospo maledetto!"
- II: "Una nave da guerra"
- II: "Scuoti quella fronda di ciliegio"
- II: "Or vienmi ad adornar"
- II: "Coro a bocca chiusa" (Humming Chorus)
- II: "Oh eh, oh eh"
- II: ""Già il sole!"
- II: "Povera Butterfly"
- II: "Io so che alle pene"
- II: "Addio fiorito asil"
- II: "Glielo dirai"
- II: "Che vuol da me"
- II: "Come una mosca prigionera"
- II: "Con onor muore... Tu, tu? Piccolo Iddio"