Giacomo Puccini
MADAMA BUTTERFLY (CIO-CIO-SAN)
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on the play by David Belasco, in turn based on the novella by John Luther Long
Version by Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre
Performed in Italian
2010 production
Recorded live at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre on October 3, 2019
Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes (with intermission)
Musical Director — Alexander Anisimov
Conductor — Petr Beliakin
Stage Director — Denis Radchenko
Set Designers — Pyotr Okunev, Olga Shaishmelashvili
Lighting Designer — Sergey Martynov
Production Chorus Master — Dmitry Batin
Chorus Masters — Tatiana Stepanova, Evgeny Vorobyov
Artistic Director of the Production — Georgy Isaakyan
Cast:
Butterfly, Japanese, actress — Zarina Abaeva
Pinkerton, American, an ordinary clerk — Boris Rudak
Sharpless, American, nicknamed Consul — Konstantin Suchkov
Goro, Japanese, manager of the Nagasaki Salon, actor — Danis Khuzin
Suzuki, Japanese, Butterfly’s maid, actress — Natalia Buklaga
Kate, American, Pinkerton’s wife — Daria Pichugina
Yamadori, a wealthy Japanese, who is living in New York — Pavel Reiman
Bonze, Japanese, a former actor of the Nagasaki Salon — Oleg Ivanov
Commissioner, Japanese, actor — Alexander Mozhaev
Musicians, singers, Butterfly’s girlfriends and relatives, Japanese, actors — artists of the Chorus and extras
Symphony Orchestra of the Theatre
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