Season 2022/2023

Madama Butterfly

Music Giacomo Puccini

Japanese Tragedy in three acts
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa after John Luther Long and David Belasco

World Première Milano, Teatro alla Scala, 17 February 1904

First performed at Teatro Costanzi, 25 March 1908

Length: 2h 45': 55' Act I - 25' Intermission - 85' Acts II and III

Conductor

Roberto Abbado

Director

Àlex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus)

CHORUS MASTER Ciro Visco

SET DESIGNER Alfons Flores

COSTUME DESIGNER Lluc Castells

LIGHTING DESIGNER Marco Filibeck

VIDEO Franc Aleu

CAST

CIO-CIO-SAN Eleonora Buratto / Maria Teresa Leva (17, 20, 22, 25) / Vittoria Yeo (18)
SUZUKI Anna Maria Chiuri
PINKERTON Dmytro Popov / Luciano Ganci (17, 22, 25)
SHARPLESS Roberto Frontali / Giovanni Meoni (17, 22, 25)
GORO Carlo Bosi
ZIO BONZO Luciano Leoni
PRINCE YAMADORI Eduardo Niave *
YAKUSIDÉ Maurizio Cascianelli
KATE PINKERTON Ekaterine Buachidze *
THE IMPERIAL COMMISSIONER Mattia Rossi *
THE OFFICIAL REGISTRAR Antonio Taschini
CIO-CIO-SAN’S MOTHER Angela Nicoli
THE AUNT Stefania Rosai
THE COUSIN Cristina Tarantino