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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"

Puccini's Madama Butterfly

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

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Cast

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)

Program notes

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.

Alex Ollé depicts a faithful account of the love, loss, and sacrifice of Puccini’s grand opus while transposing the action to the present day. Japanese soprano Hiromi Omura plays Cio-Cio-San with great strength and stunning vocals, showing how her role rejects Japanese traditions in an embrace of modernity. Georgy Vasiliev perfectly represents the cruel personification of power and prestige in the role of Pinkerton. To top it all off, the opera is staged at the magnificent Sydney Harbour, a thematically fitting locale—and one more precious than ever in a modern world where beauty is becoming ever scarcer…

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