Madame Butterfly - Theater Oostpool

Muziek

Puccini's world famous opera Madama Butterfly has been fascinating opera visitors with her well -known arias for more than a century. But what does this musical masterpiece say that takes place in Japan, actually us?

Madama Butterfly tells the love story of the Japanese geisha cio-cio-san, nicknamed butterfly. Up to her ears, she marries an American naval officer, who returns to his native country immediately after their marriage. Butterfly remains abandoned in expectation of their son. After three years her loved one returns, but not for the reunification that CIO-Cio-San has waited for.

Madama Butterfly was first performed in 1904 and is based on a clear 19th -century Western vision of the Asian woman, with all the prejudices that belonged. Prejudices that are still present in Dutch society today.

In his radical adaptation, director Char Li Chung breaks with the original story. In Madame Butterfly CIO-CIO-SAN (Cystine Carreon, known from, among others. Gooische Vrouwen and Miss Saigon ) finally speaking. The Orientalist male perspective is no longer central, but the main character gets control over her own story. And that was high time.