"Madame Butterfly" by G. Puccini on 18 April at the Opera House
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On 18 April at 7 pm at the State Opera Stara Zagora is the production of the opera Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini. Conductor Guy Davis. The director's adaptation is by Slavcho Nikolov , Scenography Boris Stoynov, Costume designer Tsvetanka Petkova-Stoynova, , Adaptation and ballet rehearsal Penka DimitrovaHorchmaster Mladen Stanev.
In the role of Cho Cho San you will see Desi Stefanova, Pinkerton is Boris Taskov, Sharples is Ivan Kabamitov , Goro is Ivaylo Yovchev, Suzuki is Teresa Brakalova, Kate Pinkerton is Emilia Djurova and others. Participating are the choir, orchestra and ballet of the State Opera-Stara Zagora.
"Madame Butterfly" of the State Opera-Stara Zagora is a performance created in 2005 for the opening of the Festival of Opera and Ballet Art /FOBI/. In that year, the Opera House was not yet completed and the performances were played on the stage of the Geo Milev Drama Theatre in the city. During the 2005/2006 season, at the invitation of Columbia Artist Management, the show was performed in over 15 states of the USA. The touring production has received positive reviews and rave reviews from the American press and audiences. With a small hiatus between 2010 and 2012, the show never left the Stara Zagora stage for 6 seasons, enjoying exceptional audience response.
Who is the legendary Madame Butterfly?
Madame Butterfly (Cho Cho San) is a geisha in love with the frivolous American Lieutenant Pinkerton. He marries her, but not exactly out of love as much as infatuation and tempted by the possibility of marriage in both Japan and the States. Returning to America, he marries Kate as well, and Cho Cho-san is left alone with their child, waiting for him in their house in Nagasaki, scorned by her relatives and rejecting marriage proposals from a Japanese prince. Three years later, Pinkerton disembarks the ship at the harbor with his American wife and wants to take the child with him, and Madame Butterfly's broken heart cannot endure and she ends her life.
Puccini was first introduced to the story in London, where he attended a theatrical production of David Belasco's Madame Butterfly, which he in turn adapted from John Luther Long's short story published in a magazine. Indeed, this Japanese drama has the inevitable charge to become an operatic work, but Puccini was actually inspired less by it than by the performance of the actress Evelyn Millard. She played the character of the lovelorn geisha so affectingly that, immediately on his return to Italy, the composer commissioned a libretto from the authors Ilica and Giacosa, who, to enrich the plot, added new action to it.
The premiere in February 1904 was a complete fiasco. Puccini's enemies were behind its orchestrated failure, but in all likelihood the opera surprised audiences with its modernity and atypicality, as well as its unconvincing scenography. Puccini did not give up, however, but reworked it, and three months later a second premiere took place in Brescia, where the work was perceived in a radically different way, and from where it took its glorious path around the world.
Come to the State Opera-Stara Zagora on 18 April at 7 pm to see a performance that weaves together the aesthetics and depth of the East - against which stands out the bright and fiery heart of little Cho Cho San, who is all Love, she is Love itself!