The Japanese geisha Cio-Cio-San, called Butterfly, revels in happiness when the US-American lieutenant Pinkerton marries her. Their love culminates in an enchanting duet. Soon after, however, a ship takes the soldier back home.
It is a clash of worlds and values: While Pinkerton feels free and marries an US-American woman back home, Butterfly, full of love, hope and longing, waits for his return for three long years – together with their child. Singing her famous aria “Un bel dì vedremo”, she imagines the day she and her beloved husband will be reunited. Then, however, Pinkerton returns with his US-American wife and Cio-Cio-San makes an irrevocable decision.
PREMIERE 20 July 2023 – 9.15 p.m.
Opera in three acts (1904)
Libretto von Giuseppe Giacosa und Luigi Illica nach der gleichnamigen Kurzgeschichte von John LutherLong (1898) und dem darauf basierenden Schauspiel Madame Butterfly.
