Opera: MADAMA BUTTERFLY Teatro Real, Madrid
Director: Mario Gas.
In 3 acts. 145 min.
Screenwriter: Music by Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after the play by David Belasco.
Cast: Ermonela Jaho, Enkelejda Shkosa, Marifé Nogales, Jorge de Leon.
Sunday afternoon outings in Hartford now offer Rising Alternative Opera at Cinestudio: new productions and gifted singers, performed on the stages of the worlds greatest opera houses! This week it is Puccini’s beloved Madama Butterfly at Teatro Real, Madrid. Director Mario Gas sets his new interpretation in a 1930’s film studio, where they are working on a movie adaptation of Puccini’s soaring opera of romance and innocence lost. Ermonela Jaho’s singing and acting are exquisite as the young Japanese girl who believes her tryst with an American officer (Jorge de Leon) is true love. In Italian with subtitles.
“Ermonela Jaho triumphs…she has made the character of Butterfly her own, living it with a rare intensity. She is possibly the best today in such a complex character.” José M. Irurzun, Seen and Heard International.
