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CANCELLED PERFORMANCE

Due to a tragic accident, we are cancelling the performance of Madama Butterfly on October 2. All ticket holders will be contacted.

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Madama Butterfly

Playing from 25 August to 26 October
Music
Giacomo Puccini
Libretto
Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa
Conductor
Constantin Trinks
Director
Kirsten Harms
Set & costume design, make up
Herbert Murauer
Light design
Torben Lendorph
Dramaturge
Katarina Aronsson
Language
Sung in Italian with Swedish surtitles.
Running time
Approx. 2 hrs 45 mins incl. interval.

Puccini's master piece MADAMA BUTTERFLY is back at the Royal Swedish Opera


A dramatic love story that opens with the grandiose wedding between the American lieutenant Pinkerton and his beloved Butterfly. She trusts his promise of eternal fidelity and love, but he goes home, leaving her behind. She is prepared to wait for him for as long as it takes. When Pinkerton finally returns, he finds a confused woman and her child, still at the now deserted place where they were married ...

Giacomo Puccini’s opera about Cio-Cio-San, known as Butterfly, who rejects her family, her religious faith and her culture to marry the American lieutenant Pinkerton, is among the most popular and frequently performed operas. This production was a major success when it premiered at the Royal Swedish Opera in 2014. Butterfly is sung by the critically acclaimed and internationally celebrated soprano Eri Nakamura.


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Performance dates

The cast with reservation for changes
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Cast

Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)
B.F Pinkerton
Kate Pinkerton
Conductor

Royal Swedish Orchestra
Royal Swedish Opera Chorus

* Trainee from Opera - Stockholm University of the Arts

Want to know the cast in this production, with dates for alternating artists?
Here you find an excerpt from the performance program (in Swedish) »
Please note that the program is made before the first performance date and that any changes after that are not visible.
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