Madama Butterfly marked a new phase in Puccini’s development, in which he enriched his musical palette with the exoticism of the Far East. The fact that his direct emotionality contains a universal dimension is clear from the lasting worldwide popularity of this work. Hotel Pro Forma, known to us for their performance of Rachmaninov Troika in 2015, brings East and West together in a theatrical ritual for our time. Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, a master of the Italian repertoire, makes his La Monnaie debute.

Cast

Alexia Voulgaridou

Cio-Cio San

Ning Liang

Suzuki

Marcelo Puente

F.B. Pinkerton

Aris Argiris

Sharpless

Riccardo Botta

Goro

Aldo Heo

Yamadori

Mikhail Kolelishvili

Bonzo

Marta Beretta

Kate Pinkerton

Roberto Rizzi Brignoli

Conductor