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Giacomo Puccini

Madama Butterfly

Japanese tragedy in three acts
Text by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
based on the play of the same name by David Belasco and John Luther Long after Long's story
In Italian with surtitles

Oper
Premiere 07.12.2024
Location Großer Saal Musiktheater
 - Dauer 2 Std. 50 min. (eine Pause) -

Dates 2024/2025

Wednesday, 19. February 2025 19:30 - 22:15
Großer Saal Musiktheater
19.00 Einführung
Cast
Volksgarten-Reihe 1
Friday, 28. February 2025 19:30 - 22:15
Großer Saal Musiktheater
19.00 Einführung
Cast
Landabo Freitag
Sunday, 30. March 2025 19:30 - 22:15
Großer Saal Musiktheater
19.00 Einführung
Cast
Abo Szenario Classico 1
Saturday, 05. April 2025 19:30 - 22:15
Großer Saal Musiktheater
Cast
Abo Szenario Classico 3
Thursday, 10. April 2025 19:30 - 22:15
Großer Saal Musiktheater
Cast
Landabo Donnerstag
Saturday, 26. April 2025 19:30 - 22:15
Großer Saal Musiktheater
Cast
Weihnachtsabo Musiktheater, Abo 4+4
Thursday, 01. May 2025 19:30 - 22:15
Großer Saal Musiktheater
Cast
Volksgarten-Reihe 4
Friday, 23. May 2025 19:30 - 22:15
Großer Saal Musiktheater
Cast
VOEST-Abo Musiktheater
Wednesday, 18. June 2025 19:30 - 22:15
Großer Saal Musiktheater
Cast
Abo Szenario Classico 2
Wednesday, 02. July 2025 19:30 - 22:15
Großer Saal Musiktheater
Cast
Landabo Mittwoch

Information

An Italian composes an opera that he describes as a “Japanese tragedy” after seeing an English-language play about the tragic fate of a geisha who is abandoned by an American and breaks down in pain - with (or despite) this somewhat adventurous starting point, Giacomo Puccini created one of the most touching operas ever with his Madama Butterfly.

For the story of a love that fails due to a lack of understanding for one another, cultural narrow-mindedness and an imbalance of feelings encompasses deeply human emotions, longings and fallibilities and moves us across cultural differences right up to the present day. Music becomes the all-connecting element here, with which every impossibility can be overcome: In all the improbability of the narrative, not only passion, beauty and pain arise, but also art between emotion and politics.


Age recommendation: 14+

Pictures

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Trailer

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Cast

Cio-Cio-San, genannt Madama Butterfly
Joanna Zawartko
Carina Tybjerg Madsen
Suzuki, Dienerin Cio-Cio-Sans
Angela Simkin
Manuela Leonhartsberger
Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, Leutnant in der Marine der USA
Carlos Cardoso
Matjaž Stopinšek
Sharpless, amerikanischer Konsul in Nagasaki
Adam Kim
Goro, Nakōdo
Christian Drescher
Der Fürst Yamadori
Alexander York
Kate Pinkerton
Tina Josephine Jaeger
Onkel Bonzo
Yongcheol Kim
Gregorio Changhyun Yun
Dolore, Butterflys Kind
Maximilian Fischer
Luca Zavatti
Der kaiserliche Kommissar
Ulf Bunde
Felix Lodel
Der Standesbeamte
Leonard Wenzel
Rafael Berger
Yakusidé
Yuranny Hernández Gómez
Pietro Picone
Cio-Cio-Sans Mutter
Nelya Kravchenko
Sarah Redlhammer
Cio-Cio-Sans Tante
Sophie Bellamy
Antoaneta Mineva
Cio-Cio-Sans Cousine
Kateryna Lyashenko
Hannah Kostros

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