MADAMA BUTTERFLY - GIACOMO PUCCINI

 

Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini.

In April 2012, in Sain-Etienne Opera, Régis Mengus lived Prínipe Yamadori.

 

Act 1

         

The realtor Goro, offers to the captain-lieutenant in the US Navy, Benjamin Pinkerton, the future home for the wedding with the bride - Cio-Cio-San - by he entrusted, on a hill in Nagasaki. The American consul, Sharpless, realizes that Pinkerton is not taking very seriously the idea of marriage. Sharpless tells of feelings of Cio-Cio-San and Pinkerton desconversa talking about America.

         

With the arrival of Cio-Cio-San the wedding ceremony takes place. Pinkerton is excited to realize that his wife is only 15 years. The party is interrupted by an old priest, Cio-Cio-San's uncle who recriminates her to renounce the faith on her ancestors while he visited a Christian mission. All relatives reject her and go. The newlyweds are alone, except for the presence of Suzuki, Cio-Cio-San's faithful maid and some employees of the house. Walking with his wife, Pinkerton calls her Madama Butterfly, as her delicate gestures resemble a butterfly. After all Cio-Cio-San shows be very happy herself.

 

Act 2

          

Three years had passed since the wedding. Pinkerton returned to the United States, leaving Butterfly with a little child who did not know him. The money left by him is running out, but she believes that her lover will return. Sharpless returns to the house bringing a letter from Pinkerton, while that Goro brings new proposal of marriage to Butterfly, now with Yamadori, a rich admirer, claiming that the abandonment by her husband allows her to remarry. Cio-Cio-San refuses the offer saying that her husband will return. Sharpless is startled to find out the son of Pinkerton and tries to reveal the contents of the letter which tells the new marriage, by the american. Butterfly misinterprets it, on the behalf of Pinkerton,  all phrases that hears and sees renewed hopes the arrival of Pinkerton.

 

Act 3

         

Pinkerton returns with his wife and visits Butterfly and tells her that "they will take her son." Alone, Butterfly takes from, her belongings, a dagger that belonged to his father where there is the inscription "Die with honor, when it is impossible living without honor," then she kills herself. Pinkerton arrives, and before her dead, he cries in anguish, pronouncing her name three times.