The Châteauvallon-Liberté national stage invites the Opéra de Toulon to the Summer Festival.
Through the tragic destiny of a geisha abandoned in Nagasaki, Giacomo Puccini composes a poignant opera that sublimates absence and expectation through masterly lyricism.
Through the tragic destiny of a geisha abandoned in Nagasaki, Giacomo Puccini composes a poignant opera that sublimates absence and expectation through masterly lyricism.
Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, conducted by Victorien Vanoosten and directed by Florent Siaud.
With Sunyoung Seo (Cio-Cio-San), Edgaras Montvidas (B. F. Pinkerton), Irina Sherazadishvili (Suzuki), Csaba Kotlár (Sharpless), Yoann Le Lan (Goro), Jiwon Song (Le Prince Yamadori), Matthieu Toulouse (Le bonze), Kaarin Cecilia Phelps (Kate Pinkerton) and the Toulon Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
At the beginning of the 20th century, in Nagasaki, Japan, a young geisha meets an American naval officer, and falls instantly and deeply in love. Her marriage to Lieutenant Pinkerton is the promise of a happy life to which she commits herself irrevocably, choosing to abandon her faith and traditions in the process. But her fragile happiness cannot last. Soon, love turns to abandonment and betrayal. Butterfly is forced to make a final, heartbreaking sacrifice...
From this classic theme of a woman seduced then abandoned, Giacomo Puccini composes a cruel and refined fairy tale. He invents the music of absence and expectation in an opera of lush orchestration and ardent lyricism. The most moving score in his repertoire.
With Sunyoung Seo (Cio-Cio-San), Edgaras Montvidas (B. F. Pinkerton), Irina Sherazadishvili (Suzuki), Csaba Kotlár (Sharpless), Yoann Le Lan (Goro), Jiwon Song (Le Prince Yamadori), Matthieu Toulouse (Le bonze), Kaarin Cecilia Phelps (Kate Pinkerton) and the Toulon Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
At the beginning of the 20th century, in Nagasaki, Japan, a young geisha meets an American naval officer, and falls instantly and deeply in love. Her marriage to Lieutenant Pinkerton is the promise of a happy life to which she commits herself irrevocably, choosing to abandon her faith and traditions in the process. But her fragile happiness cannot last. Soon, love turns to abandonment and betrayal. Butterfly is forced to make a final, heartbreaking sacrifice...
From this classic theme of a woman seduced then abandoned, Giacomo Puccini composes a cruel and refined fairy tale. He invents the music of absence and expectation in an opera of lush orchestration and ardent lyricism. The most moving score in his repertoire.
