Madama Butterfly at Wiener Staatsoper GmbH

Dates: (9/8/2016 - 9/14/2016 )

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Wiener Staatsoper GmbH

Opernring 2
Wien,Wien 1010

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Tickets: €14.00 - €205.00

Running Time: 3.45 Hours 1 Intermissions

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act 1
Near Nagasaki the lieutenant of the American Navy Pinkerton visited a house which he wants to rent from the owner Goro. Here he wants to spend his honeymoon with the Japanese geisha Cio-cio-san, with that girl he compares with a butterfly and he intends to take in temporary marriage to wife after that time tolerated custom. What Suzuki, Butterfly's servant, and Goro tell him of his bride, his recklessness can not change, nor the compassion that brings the American consul Sharpless expressed. You trigger one another, but the toast Pinkerton applies America and all that it binds to America.
Cio-cio San appears, accompanied by their girlfriends. During the wedding ceremony is prepared, she talks about her life, her family. The family impoverished by the suicide of her father. She tells Pinkerton also believes that it has accepted his faith.
This sign of love leads immediately after the ceremony to an incident: Her uncle, a Buddhist priest, comes to them to curse the faith because of their waste. But more than that would Butterfly sacrifice to be her husband complacent. And the magic of nightfall feels even stranger for a few moments, the size of the heart, the beating of him.

act 2
Three years waiting Cio-cio-san already on her husband, to whom she gave birth to a son. Pinkerton promised her before his departure to return. In her mind she sees his ship, but also the prayers Suzuki, her maid, fortune not bring forward the beloved. Sharpless enters; But its mission goes beyond his strength: He is Cio-cio-san tell you that Pinkerton had married in America that Geisha is free again. Cio-cio San drops the consul barely read what is in Pinkertons letter, overjoyed to finally hear from her lover, she assailed him with questions. Goro found out about the marriage Pinkertons and brings out the rich Yamadori as suitor with. In the opinion, Sharpless Butterfly have already informed, they submit their proposal and are rejected indignantly from the unsuspecting. but Goro has a novelty: Pinkertons ship was expected in port. Butterfly's joy is so great that Sharpless still can not find the courage to tell her the truth. His advice to marry Yamadori, finds incomprehension. Does not he alone that they and Pinkerton belong together, he does not see it in the eyes of her child? In their decorated house Butterfly waits with her servant one night, one last night still on their spouses.

act 3
Only towards morning Cio-cio-san has been overcome by sleep. When Pinkerton comes accompanied by the Consul, he is received by Suzuki. Your portrayal of Butterfly's fidelity engages his heart. But Suzuki must see that fate is unstoppable: In the garden she sees the wife Pinkertons, the woman he has brought from America. Gripped by remorse fled Pinkerton, Kate and the Consul are shaken. Madame Butterfly at a single glance the situation. Their elation gives way to a frightening calm: you are in to pressure their child over to the father, he may pick it up in a short time. Left alone takes Butterfly farewell to her child. Then she kills herself after the custom of their fathers. "Ehrenvoll to die, who can not live in honor more."

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