21/08 at 8.15pm (BST) and 9.15pm (Italian time)
Puccini Festival
Great Open Air Theatre Giacomo Puccini, Torre del Lago
Madame Butterfly
By Giacomo Puccini
Orchestra of the Puccini Festival
Choir of the Puccini Festival
Manu Lalli direction, settings and costumes
Enrico Calesso conductor
Roberto Ardigò, choir conductor
Shoko Okada Cio Cio San
Raffaele Abete Pinkerton
Annunziata Vestri Suzuki
Another masterpiece by Giacomo Puccini that tells the tragic story of Cio Cio San, a Japanese girl and her love for Pinkerton, a U.S. naval officer. Women have always played important roles in the music of Puccini, who created impressive female personalities as in Madama Butterfly where a fifteen years old girl reaches maturity in the space of three acts of the opera.
Madama Butterfly was composed in 1904 in Torre del Lago, where Puccini wrote many of his world-renowned operas.
For further information: www.puccinifestival.it
The performance can be viewed freely in streaming and on demand for 48 hours, subject to registration on: http://www.italiafestival.tv/
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