Live Performance Tonight – Madama Butterfly from Valencia
OperaA special live performance for Slippedisc readers from Valencia’s iconic Palau de les Arts. The audience favourite Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini returns with soprano Marina Rebeka and tenor Piero Pretti in the leading roles is brought to you by courtesy of OperaVision .
Sung in Italian. (Subtitles will be available shortly after the livestream in English, French and German)
Available from 19.12.2021 until 19.6.2022 at 19 .00 CET, 18.00 London, 13.00 NY
Watching. Marina Rebeka is fabulous. Thanks for the link….
1) For all the post-atomic-bomb-Nagasaki hype, this was as a traditional Butterfly as they come, with all the usual stereotypes and japonaiseries that is the staple of every regional opera house production of Butterfly.
2) If you’re going to set this Butterfly in WW II, and make Pinkerton and Butterfly allegories for America and Japan, you can’t just bash America and wholly ignore imperialist Japan’s war crimes against humanity in Asia.
3) Was the soprano Marina Rebeka miked? At one point it sounded like she hit a body mic that boomed throughout the house. This was a small voice production with a small sound orchestra. It doesn’t really work.
4) The irony of setting Butterfly in an atom-bombed out barren landscape is that who can feel sympathy for a mother who would raise her child on radiation contaminated ground zero and who can blame a father for wanting to move his child to a non-toxic, non-radioactive home. If Butterfly didn’t kill herself, she would’ve died of radiation poisoning anyway.
THANK YOU, that’s the utmost out of tune well tempered version I have ever heard. I think I’ll go back to Carol Burnett with her friend!
THANKYOU!