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Concertante: Kirill Petrenko with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”

Name: Concertante: Kirill Petrenko with Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”
Start: 2025-04-27T19:00:00
Location: Berliner Philharmonie

Berliner Philharmoniker

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For her it is true love, for him just an affair. Giacomo Puccini transformed John Luther Long’s 1898 story of teenaged geisha Cio-Cio-San and cavalier American naval lieutenant Pinkerton into one of the most popular operas of all time – and a commentary on colonialism that remains ripe for re-examination. His music reflects both the orientalism of his time and the sentimentality of late verismo. After leading staged performances in Baden-Baden, K...

Program

Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly

Composer

Participants

Kirill Petrenko

Conductor

Didier Pieri

Goro

Jonathan Tetelman

Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton

Eleonora Buratto

Cio-Cio-San