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MADAMA BUTTERFLY / 2017

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Puccini’s classic in Hotel Pro Forma’s staging

2017



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Credits
PARTICIPANTS

Conductor Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli / Bassem Akiki
Director Kirsten Dehlholm
Co-director Jon R. Skulberg
Set design Maja Ziska
Light design Jesper Kongshaug
Costume design Henrik Vibskov
Choreography for ninjas Kenzo Kusuda
Puppet Theatre Company Ulrike Quade Company
Dramaturgy Krystian Lada
Production La Monnaie / De Munt

First performances
31 Jan 2017: World premiere at La Monnaie / De Munt, Bruxelles, Belgium

Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus
Madama Butterfly. Photo: Baus

After staging Rachmaninov’s three short operas under the common title, Rachmaninov Troika, at La Monnaie, Brussels, in 2015, Hotel Pro Forma got a new opera assignment for the same opera house: Madama Butterfly by Puccini.

Madama Butterfly is known and beloved in the classic opera world. A new interpretation must be found. In Hotel Pro Forma’s staging, Madama Butterfly becomes a ghost story with the Japanese geisha Cio-Cio-San as an old ghost, a storyteller who has to tell her tale over and over.

The singer telling the story sings from the proscenium, while a life size puppet on stage creates a mute construction of her short life. With the puppet’s opportunity of creating stylized expression of emotions and the pure musical performance of the narrating voice, the story’s emotional layers are enhanced.

Other parts of the story’s underlying tones are made visible when black ninjas become threatening ancestors, and when ominous phenomena pop up. Madame Butterfly’s death cannot be changed, but the story takes another twist at the end.

Director Kirsten Dehlholm brings a team of artistic collaborators to Brussels to stage Madama Butterfly.

More info at La Monnaie’s website


Danish
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Puccinis klassiker i Hotel Pro Formas opsætning
2017

Efter iscenesættelse af Rachmaninovs tre korte operaer med fællestitlen RACHMANINOV TROIKA på La Monnaie de Munt i Bruxelles i 2015, har Hotel Pro Forma fået en ny opgave for samme operahus: MADAMA BUTTERFLY af Puccini.

MADAMA BUTTERFLY er kendt og elsket i den klassiske operaverden. En ny fortolkning må findes. I Hotel Pro Formas iscenesættelse bliver MADAMA BUTTERFLY til en spøgelseshistorie med den japanske geisha Cio-Cio-San som et gammelt spøgelse, en storyteller, der igen og igen må fortælle sin historie.

Sangeren, som fortæller, synger fra forscenen, mens en life size dukke på scenen skaber en stum opførelse af sit korte liv. Dukkens mulighed for stiliserede følelsesudtryk og sangerens rent musikalske fremførelse forstærker fortællingens emotionelle lag.

Andre dele af historiens underliggende toner synliggøres, når sortklædte ninjaer bliver til truende forfædre, og når ildevarslende fænomener dukker op. MADAMA BUTTERFLYs død kan dog ikke ændres, men historien tager en anden drejning til slut.

Instruktør Kirsten Dehlholm bringer et team af kunstneriske samarbejdspartnere med til Bruxelles for at iscenesætte MADAMA BUTTERFLY.

Læs mere på La Monnaies website (engelsk)

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