opera Puccini's Madama Butterfly Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier (stage directors), Antonio Pappano (conductor) – With Ermonela Jaho (Cio-Cio-San), Marcelo Puente (Pinkerton), Scott Hendricks (Sharpless)

Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier (stage directors), Antonio Pappano (conductor) – With Ermonela Jaho (Cio-Cio-San), Marcelo Puente (Pinkerton), Scott Hendricks (Sharpless)

Puccini's Madama Butterfly Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier (stage directors), Antonio Pappano (conductor) – With Ermonela Jaho (Cio-Cio-San), Marcelo Puente (Pinkerton), Scott Hendricks (Sharpless)

About

One of the most beloved operas of all time, Madama Butterfly was born in an age when Europe was coming into closer contact with distant lands. Previously closed cultures like Japan fascinated westerners in ways that the Near East had fascinated their forebearers: the fascination portrayed in Madama Butterfly is a direct descendant of 17the century “Turkish Marches”, Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado, Pierre Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème (which heavily inspired Puccini), and Mascagni’s Iris. This universe at the crossroads of East and West is encapsulated well by the minimalist staging of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier, which brings to mind traditional Japanese dwellings and waterways.

Royal Opera House

Cast

Moshe Leiser | Stage director
Patrice Caurier | Stage director
Christian Fenouillat | Stage design
Agostino Cavalca | Costume designer
Christophe Forey | Lighting designer

Ermonela Jaho | Cio-Cio-San
Marcelo Puente | B.F. Pinkerton
Scott Hendricks | Sharpless
Elizabeth DeShong | Suzuki
Carlo Bosi | Goro
Jeremy White | Bonzo
Yuriy Yurchuk | Prince Yamadori
Emily Edmonds | Kate Pinkerton
Gyula Nagy | Imperial Commissioner
Jonathan Coad | Official Registrar
Eryl Royle | Cio-Cio-San’s mother
Andrew O’Connor | Uncle Yakusidé
Amy Catt | Cousin
Kiera Lyness | Aunt
Harry Langton | Dolore

Royal Opera Chorus
William Spaulding | Chorus director
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Sergey Levitin | Co-concertmaster
Sir Antonio Pappano | 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"