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            Madama Butterfly

            Giacomo Puccini

            Madama Butterfly


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            Japanische Tragödie in drei Aufzügen | Libretto von Giuseppe Giacosa und Luigi Illica | In italienischer Sprache mit deutschen Übertiteln

            Dauer: ca. 2 3/4 Stunden | Eine Pause | ab 15 Jahren

            Japanese tragedy in three acts | Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa | After the theater piece by David Belasco and John Luther Long | In Italian with German supertitles | Playing time ca. 2 1/2 hours | One intermission
            This opera, which Puccini himself considered his favorite and best work, moves everyone who hears it. In the summer of 1900, Puccini saw David Belasco’s theater piece »Madame Butterfly« in a London Theater, and was indelibly touched. It was a tragic story of very human proportions, coupled with an old-fashioned dose of Far East exoticism. As Belasco did, Puccini set his opera in the present, in the year 1904, the year of its world premiere. The strict rules and customs of Japanese society are confronted by the western world, in the form of the American marine lieutenant Pinkerton. For him, his fictitious marriage with the young geisha Cio-Cio San, also called »Butterfly«, is nothing more than an exotic romantic adventure. For her, though, it is the chance of a lifetime: Fascinated by the notion of the different, freer world that her lover could give her, she’s ready to break with everything she’s ever known. She believes steadfastly that Pinkerton will return to her, even long after he has left Japan. And when he finally does return, after three years, it spells disaster.
            With »Madama Butterfly«, Puccini created one of the greatest masterpieces of his time: sumptuous melodies, full of emotional turns and exotic moments that merge as one, without sacrificing truth and realism. Aron Stiehl, who was most recently celebrated for his production of Wagner’s Liebesverbot in the summer of 2013 in Bayreuth and the subsequent Leipzig premiere of the same work, directs.

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            Management
            • Musikalische Leitung Christoph Gedschold
            • Inszenierung Aron Stiehl
            • Bühne Frank Philipp Schlößmann
            • Kostüme Sven Bindseil
            • Licht Raoul Brosch
            Cast
            • Cio-Cio-San Ekaterina Sannikova
            • Suzuki Kathrin Göring
            • Kate Katharina von Hassel
            • Pinkerton Carlos Cardoso
            • Sharpless Mathias Hausmann
            • Goro Daniel Arnaldos
            • Yamadori Frieder Flesch
            • Onkel Bonzo Sejong Chang
            • Kaiserlicher Kommissar Markus Auerbach
            • Chor Chor der Oper Leipzig
            • Komparserie der Oper Leipzig
            • Orchester Gewandhausorchester

            Contributors

              Christoph Gedschold, Musikdirektor der Oper Leipzig
              Musikalische Leitung Christoph Gedschold
              Aron Stiehl
              Inszenierung Aron Stiehl
              Ekaterina Sannikova
              Cio-Cio-San Ekaterina Sannikova
              Suzuki Kathrin Göring
              Katharina von Hassel
              Kate Katharina von Hassel
              Pinkerton Carlos Cardoso
              Sharpless Mathias Hausmann
              Daniel Arnaldos
              Goro Daniel Arnaldos
              Frieder Flesch
              Yamadori Frieder Flesch
              Onkel Bonzo Sejong Chang
              Kaiserlicher Kommissar Markus Auerbach
              Chor der Oper Leipzig
              Chor Chor der Oper Leipzig
              Gewandhausorchester
              Orchester Gewandhausorchester
            • Madama Butterfly © Tom Schulze
              © Tom Schulze
            • Madama Butterfly © Tom Schulze
              © Tom Schulze
            • Madama Butterfly © Tom Schulze
              © Tom Schulze
            • Madama Butterfly © Tom Schulze
              © Tom Schulze

            Termine & Tickets

            • Fri 20 Mar
              • Giacomo Puccini
              • Resume

              Madama Butterfly

              Oper Fri 20.03.2026 | 19:30 | Opernhaus

              Einführung 30 Min. vor Vorstellungsbeginn im Konzertfoyer.

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            • Sat 28 Mar
              • Giacomo Puccini

              Madama Butterfly

              Oper Sat 28.03.2026 | 19:00 | Opernhaus

              Einführung 30 Min. vor Vorstellungsbeginn im Konzertfoyer.

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            • Sun 05 Apr
              • Giacomo Puccini

              Madama Butterfly

              Oper Sun 05.04.2026 | 17:00 | Opernhaus

              Einführung 30 Min. vor Vorstellungsbeginn im Konzertfoyer.

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