This is the story of an US-American consul in Japan and a geisha serving at his house to appease the sullen man.
What appears to be another version of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at first, is actually Bertolt Brecht’s play adaption of a Japanese text from 1940. In 1997, years after Brecht’s death, the text was edited for the first time, which inspired Argentinian composer Fabián Panisello to write his new opera.
Co-production with Neue Oper Wien
PREMIERE 17 August 2023 – 8 p.m.
DURATION 100 minutes (no intermission)
Opera in two parts (2023)
Libretto by Juan Lucas based on the play Nyonin Aishi. Tōjin Okichi Monogatari (The sad tale of a woman. The story of Chink Okichi) by Yamamoto Yūzō (1929) in an adaptation by Bertolt Brecht and Hella Wuolijoki (posthumously published)
