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THEATRE
 Madama
Butterfly
Venue: Artscape, DF Malan St, Cape Town. Tel: (021) 421 7695.
Time: 23, 27, 29 May @ 7:30pm, 31 May @ 3:00pm & 3
&5 Jun @
7:30pm
Price: R150 - R350
Performances: 23, 27, 29, 31 May, 3 & 5 Jun 2009
Genre: Ballet
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If you love someone set them free and hope they don’t show
up some years later with a new wife and a custody order for your child.
Clashing cultures, innocence destroyed and a tragic finale make Madama
Butterfly the ultimate opera experience. Puccini himself called it the
most deeply felt and imaginative opera of his career.
Madama Butterfly tells the moving love story and subsequent
heartbreak of the beautiful, fifteen year old geisha, Butterfly, and the
American naval officer, Lieutenant Pinkerton. Their blossoming romance is
cut short when Pinkerton’s tour of duty in Nagasaki comes to an end.
Butterfly, however, remains constant in her belief that Pinkerton will one
day return to her.
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Three years pass before he returns, this time with his new
American wife. He is unaware that in the meantime, Butterfly has borne him
a son. The consequences of his careless indifference are tragic, as
Butterfly painfully comprehends the reality of her intolerable situation.
CTO’s production is the meeting of Japanese Kabuki and Western opera and
features some of Puccini’s most beautiful and captivating music.
Appearing in the title role will be Amanda Echalaz, who has
made a name for herself overseas both in the roles of Cio Cio San and
Tosca. Opposite her as Pinkerton will be Stefan Louw, one of SA’s leading
tenors. He is much in demand for romantic roles in “Traviata”, “Tosca”,
“Lucia”, “Rigoletto”, “Turandot” and “Butterfly”.
Spanish conductor Francesco Bonnin makes a welcome return to
conduct the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra in this production where the
Japanese atmosphere will be created by sets and designs of Michael
Mitchell, lit by Kobus Rossouw.
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