Opera MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Giacomo Puccini

MADAMA BUTTERFLY • Apr-30 2021 | Teatro San Carlo, Napoli
A music trip to Naples can be a wonderful combination. The city offers excellent culinary attractions and a cityscape that is best explored on foot with a private guide. You are constantly reminded of the volcano that spilled over Pompeii almost 2,000 years ago. Today this is a worthwhile destination. And then Amalfi invites to a long day trip or a connecting stay. Also Capri, Ischia and the Aeolian Islands. You could easily spend months there.
But the highlight of your musical journey is the visit to the Teatro San Carlo to a performance of your choice.
“MADAMA BUTTERFLY”, Giacomo Puccini • From 30 April to 13 May 2021
MADAMA BUTTERFLY – Season 2021 – The new events calendar after COVID – update from September 2020
Japanese Tragedy in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
Conductor • Dan Ettinger*
Master of the Chorus • Gea Garatti Ansini
Stage director • Ferzan Özpetek
Set designer • Sergio Tramonti
Costume designer • Alessandro Lai
Cast
Madama Butterfly • Anna Pirozzi (30 April, 4, 6, 8 and 12 May) / Valeria Sepe (2, 5, 7, 11 and 13 May)
F. B. Pinkerton • Giorgio Berrugi (30 April, 4, 6, 8 and 12 May) / Sergio Escobar* (2, 5, 7, 11 and 13 May)
Suzuki • Annalisa Stroppa
Sharpless • Andrzej Filończyk*
Goro • Saverio Fiore
Bonze • Ildo Song
Prince Yamadori • Paolo Orecchia
Kate Pinkerton • Rossella Locatelli
Imperial Commissioner • Enrico Di Geronimo
*debut at Teatro di San Carlo
Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro di San Carlo
Production of Teatro di San Carlo
- Friday 30 April, h 20.00
- Sunday 2 May, h 17.00
- Tuesday 4 May, h 20.00
- Wednesday 5 May, h 18.00
- Thursday 6 May, h 18.00
- Friday 7 May, h 20.00
- Saturday 8 May, h 19.00
- Tuesday 11 May, h 20.00
- Wednesday 12 May, h 18.00
- Thursday 13 May, h 18.00
Language: Sung in Italian with Italian and English surtitles
Running time: about 3 hours, including one interval
The genesis of Butterfly really shows Puccini’s intellectual curiosity. He was in London in the summer of 1900 for a performance of Tosca, he attended a play adapted from the Pierre Loti’s Madame Crystantheme and he was immediately taken with it. Soon after, he followed meticulously the outline of the libretto by Illica and Giacosa while at the same time gathering ethnic material on Japan thanks to the wife of the Japanese ambassador in Italy. Apart from its premiere at La Scala in Milan which was an anticipated fiasco, the opera has enjoyed a steady series of triumphs to this day. It is a story of pure and betrayed love, of death and anticipation. In Butterfly music is the absolute protagonist, it elicits total emotional participation using the orchestra and the signing to create masks that come alive with oriental colours. Ferzan Özpetek is the director of this recent and critically acclaimed production of Teatro San Carlo. He has set the narrative in the years following the nuclear disaster of Nakasaki, keeping however great respect towards Puccini’s original storyline. He only takes the liberty to insert a film fragment during the humming chorus, as a recognizable signature, which also appears in his Traviata.
Travel Description
Music trip Naples superior
- Gourmet Dinner
- Exclusive city walking tour in your language
- Aperitif with light dinner before the performance in a famous caffetteria
- Premium tickets in the parquet area at the San Carlo opera house
- 2 nights accommodation with breakfast
Program day by day
Day 1
- Arrival at the hotel
- Dinner at a typical Italian restaurant near the hotel (3-course menu, including drinks)
- Overnight in a hotel in Naples
Day 2
- Breakfast buffet at the hotel
- Exclusive personal guided walking tour in your language
- Before going to the theater; Aperitif with appetizers in a historic place
- Opera or Ballet performance at the San Carlo opera house
- Overnight in a hotel in Naples
Day 3
- Breakfast buffet at the hotel
- Departure and end of the program
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