Madama Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini
credits Christian Leiber
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Japanese tragedy in three acts (1904)
Music by GIACOMO PUCCINI (1858-1924)
Libretto by LUIGI ILLICA and GIUSEPPE GIACOSA
After the play by DAVID BELASCO,
adapted from a short story by JOHN LUTHER LONG
Performed in Italian
Probably one of the most beautiful and complete portraits of a woman in the history of opera, and one of the most moving too. Micaela Carosi, revealed in Paris in Andrea Chénier, plays the desperate young woman in Bob Wilson's sensitive staging.
| Maurizio Benini | Conductor |
| Robert Wilson | Stage director and sets |
| Frida Parmeggiani | Costumes |
| Heinrich Brunke and Robert Wilson | Lighting |
| Suzushi Hanayagi | Choreography |
| Holm Keller | Dramaturgy |
| Patrick Marie Aubert | Chorus master |
Micaela Carosi Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio San)
Enkelejda Shkosa Suzuki
Anna Wall Kate Pinkerton
James Valenti F. B. Pinkerton
Anthony Michaels-Moore Sharpless
Carlo Bosi Goro
Vladimir Kapshuk Il Principe Yamadori
Scott Wilde Lo Zio bonzo
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
