Mariinsky Theatre Tickets - 2023-2024 Season | Giacomo Puccini "Madama Butterfly" (japanese tragedy in three acts )

Performed in Italian

World premiere: Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Premiere of this production: 18 Mar 2005

The performance has 2 intermissions
Running time: 3 hours 20 minutes

Artists

Cast

Composer

Giacomo Puccini

Costume Designer

Paweł Grabarczyk

Costume Designer

Magdalena Tesławska

Lighting Designer

Stanisław Zięba

Musical Director

Maestro Valery Gergiev

Musical Preparation

Alla Brosterman

Principal Chorus Master

Andrei Petrenko

Set Designer

Boris Kudlichka

Stage Director

Mariusz Trelinski

Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa,
after David Belasco`s stage version of a magazine story by John Luther Long

Performed in Italian

•Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 4 January 1913, St Petersburg
•Premiere of this production:
29 May 1999,Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa, Warsaw (Poland);
27 October 2001, National Opera, Washington (USA);
new version: 18 March 2005, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

The Performance has three intermissions

Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two acts) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The opera was based partly on a short story by John Luther Long, which was turned into a play by David Belasco; it was also based on the novel, Madame Chrysantheme (1887), by Pierre Loti.