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Madama Butterfly, a fifteen-year-old geisha, has renounced her family and Japanese traditions for the love of and American naval officer who abandons her. Giacomo Puccini used this classic theme of a woman seduced and abandoned to create an opera with lush orchestration and burning lyricism. Premiered in 1904 at La Scala Milan, his score, full of oriental colours, vividly conveys the contrast between Lieutenant Pinkerton's brutality and the vulnerability of Butterfly, who is as fragile as a butterfly's wings. For Robert Wilson, this Japanese tragedy proves the ideal environment in which to display his signature formalism. Far from the traditional fans and cherry branches, the director uses stylised acting and a stripped-down space to allow the melodic lines to blossom in all their purity.
French
Running Time : 145'
Production Year : 2024