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2024-01-19 14:00:02
Madama Butterfly
Fabio Luisi conducts a live broadcast from Genoa featuring Lianna Haroutounian, Fabio Sartori,Vladimir Stoyanov, and Manuela Custer
2023-06-12 01:37:00
Madama Butterfly, San Francisco Opera
[…] admit to one minor exception: I loved the dress worn by Mikayla Sager as the young Kate.The other thing I scratched my head about was Cio-Cio-San's knee-length dress? slip? that she's wearing through a lot of Acts 2 and 3. What the actual: I am not an expert in women's turn-of-the-20th-century undergarments, but I know enough that the outfit registered as wrong.I'll probably go another 15 years before I see Butterfly again. I'm sorry to have missed Liana Haroutounian in the title role, but the December, 2007 noon matinee with Patricia Racette and Brandon Jovanovich, cond. Donald Runnicles, was one of the greatest performances I have ever seen of anything. I dug up Joshua Kosman's review and was relieved to see that I hadn't misremembered it.Lastly, no amount of concept is going to fix the awfulness of the libretto: child sex trafficking (she's FIFTEEN and it's clear from the libretto that he BUYS […]
2022-06-20 20:16:31
Anglais - First Rate Cast in Excellent Revival of Madama Butterfly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[…] we are made to appreciate his own weakness, which plays a role in him failing to do what he knows to be right. At the end, he seems totally disgusted at the person he was who allowed this tragedy to unfold in the first place. He also, however, suggests a cowardly figure who is consequently incapable of acting now in a way that will not compound Cio-Cio-San’s situation. Kseniia Nikolaieva, Lianna Haroutounian - Royal Opera House 2022 (c) Yasuko Kageyama This contrasts markedly with his brashness and confidence at the start, which is telling in itself. If Pinkerton thinks little about long-term stability with Cio-Cio-San, then his tendency to live for the moment does see him have immense feelings for her in Act I. This manifests itself most clearly in its final scene as Pinkerton and Cio-Cio-San prepare for their wedding night. Each does […]
2022-06-19 08:54:00
Madama Butterfly, Royal Opera, 14 June 2022
Royal Opera HousePinkerton – Freddie De Tommaso Goro – Alexander Kravets Suzuki – Patricia Bardon Sharpless – Lucas Meachem Cio-Cio-San – Lianna Haroutounian Imperial Commissioner – Dawid Kimberg Original Registrar – Nigel Cliffe Cio-Cio-San’s Mother – Eryl Royle Uncle Yaukusidé – Andrew O’Connor Cousin – Amy Catt Aunt – Kiera Lyness Bonze – Jeremy White Dolore – Leo Stokkland-Baker Prince Yamadori – Alan Pingarrón Kate Pinkerton – Rachel Lloyd Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier (directors)Daniel Dooner (revival director)Christian Fenouillat (set designs)Agostino Cavalca (costumes)Christophe Forey (lighting)Royal Opera Chorus (chorus director: William Spaulding)Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseDan Ettinger (conductor)Images: © Yasuko Kageyama ‘In the 21st century, staging Madama Butterfly poses questions for any opera house. The opera’s essence is a violent collision between two cultures. But how to represent another culture on stage with truth and sensitivity? In reviving Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s classic production, we have involved Japanese practitioners and academic […]
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