MADAME BUTTERFLY / PROGRAMME / Bastille / Septembre 2024
Description
Poor Madame Butterfly! The 15-year-old geisha, who has renounced her family and Japanese traditions for the love of an American naval officer, finds herself abandoned in favour of a Western wife. Giacomo Puccini used this classic theme of a woman seduced and abandoned to create an opera with lush orchestration and burning lyricism.
Premiered in 1904 at La Scala Milan, his score, full of oriental colours, vividly conveys the contrast between Lieutenant Pinkerton's brutality and the vulnerability of Butterfly, who is as fragile as a butterfly's wings.
For Robert Wilson, this Japanese tragedy proves the ideal environment in which to display his signature formalism. Far from the traditional fans and cherry branches, the director uses stylised acting and a stripped-down space to allow the melodic lines to blossom in all their purity.
Product information
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Technical specification
Duration : 2h45 with 1 interval
Language : Italian
Surtitle : French / English
Japanese tragedy in three acts (1904)
After David Belasco, based on a short novel by John Luther Long
