Metropolitan Opera in HD: Puccini’s Madam Butterfly show poster

Metropolitan Opera in HD: Puccini’s Madam Butterfly at The Ridgefield Playhouse

Dates: (4/3/2016 )

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The Ridgefield Playhouse

80 East Ridge
Ridgefield,CT 06877

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Phone: 203-438-5795

Tickets: Ticket Price $25 | Members & Seniors $20 | Students $15

Running Time: Running time 3 hours, 18 minutes, 2 intermissions

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Anthony Minghella’s breathtaking production has thrilled audiences ever since its premiere in 2006. Two of the world’s foremost Butterflys, sopranos Kristine Opolais and Patricia Racette, share the title role. Tenors Massimo Giordano and Roberto Alagna sing Pinkerton, the naval officer who breaks Butterfly’s heart. Karel Mark Chichon conducts.
World premiere: Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1904. Met premiere: February 11, 1907. The title character ofMadama Butterfly—a young Japanese geisha who clings to the belief that her arrangement with a visiting American naval officer is a loving and permanent marriage—is one of the defining roles in opera. The story triggers ideas about cultural and sexual imperialism for people far removed from the opera house, and film, Broadway, and popular culture in general have riffed endlessly on it. The lyric beauty of Puccini’s score, especially the music for the thoroughly believable lead role, has made Butterfly timeless.

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Hui He stars as Cio-Cio-San, the devoted geisha who gives everything for the American naval officer Pinkerton, sung by Andrea Carè. Elizabeth DeShong is her devoted companion Suzuki, and Brazilian baritone Paulo Szot adds a new role to his Met repertory as Sharpless, a role that he has previously sung at Marseilles Opera.

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