When working on the opera, composer Puccini studied Japanese music and culture in order to create an authentic reflection of a country he had never visited. But when Pinkerton returns three years later with his American wife, the encounter is a rude awakening. All the same, no one can take from her the intense hope that a miracle might happen.
To him, his marriage to the Japanese geisha is for fun, while she takes it very seriously.Įveryone around Cio-Cio San realises that her dream will never come true. In addition to a highly lauded chorus and full orchestra, the show will feature renowned Korean soprano Elena Dee and celebrated international soprano Alyona Kistenyova.In the most famous aria, ‘Un bel di’, Madama Butterfly – or Cio-Cio San as she is called – sings about ‘one fine day’ – the day when the American officer Pinkerton will return to Nagasaki for her and their son. Her production was named Best Opera at Liverpool Daily Post’s Theatre Awards, plus The Independent said it “captured the raw emotion at the centre of the opera” and advises audience goers not to “take a handkerchief with you, take a box of them”.Īmong the many musical highlights for this story that reaches across cultures, oceans and time are the moving aria 'One Fine Day', the melodic 'Humming Chorus' and the unforgettable 'Love Duet'.īack by overwhelming public demand, Senbla presents Opera International’s Ellen Kent production of a new Madama Butterfly has been announced for 2022 with breath-taking costumes (such as antique wedding kimonos from Japan) and exquisite sets including a Japanese garden.
However, hers is an unrequited love with devastating consequences.Īward-winning opera producer Ellen Kent has been doing a traditional staging of Madama Butterfly that truly pulls at the heartstrings for many years. She falls hopelessly in love with US naval lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, who has purchased a house there as well as the right to marry her.
Set in Nagasaki Japan, it follows a young geisha girl named Cio-Cio-San, otherwise known as Madama Butterfly. The three-act opera premiered at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy in 1904. Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is an unforgettable story of doomed love and heartbreak.
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