Arena di Verona
"Madama Butterfly" at the 100th Arena di Verona Opera Festival 2023
Show
Opera
Booklet
Giuseppe Giacosa e Luigi Illica
Music
Giacomo Puccini
Duration
2 h 40 min
«Un bel dì, vedremo» (One fine day, we shall see) Madama Butterfly (the famous “Japanese tragedy” by Giacomo Puccini) come back to the Arena, in the suggestive set-up by Franco Zeffirelli, embellished by Oscar-winner Emi Wada’s costumes. Or rather, we will admire it on four nights, from 12 August to 7 September. Get your kimono... and your tissues ready.
12, 25 August 02, 07 September
12, 25 August 02, 07 September
12, 25 August 02, 07 September
12, 25 August 02, 07 September
12 August
25 August
02, 07 September
12, 25 August 02, 07 September
12 August
25 August 02, 07 September
12 August
25 August
02, 07 September
12, 25 August 02, 07 September
12, 25 August 02, 07 September
12, 25 August 02, 07 September
12, 25 August 02, 07 September
12, 25 August 02, 07 September
12, 25 August 02, 07 September
«Un bel dì, vedremo» (One fine day, we shall see) Madama Butterfly (the famous “Japanese tragedy” by Giacomo Puccini) come back to the Arena, in the suggestive set-up by Franco Zeffirelli, embellished by Oscar-winner Emi Wada’s costumes. Or rather, we will admire it on four nights, from 12 August to 7 September.
Get your kimono... and your tissues ready, as very few stories are as heartbreaking as Cio-Cio-San’s, the fifteen-year-old geisha who (wishing to redeem herself from a life of misery), accepts a sham marriage to Lieutenant Pinkerton, falls in love with him (while he only sees her as a diversion), and would give up anything to stay true to her commitment.
di Giacomo Puccini
Japanese tragedy in three acts
Booklet by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
Direction and set design Franco Zeffirelli
Costumes Emi Wada
Arena di Verona Orchestra, Choir, Corps de Ballet and Technical team
Choirmaster Ulisse Trabacchin
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«Largo al factotum della città» (Make way for the city's jack of all trades) and to the most famous comic opera by Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, dedicated to cunning Figaro, Count Almaviva, vivacious Rosina, and surly Don Bartolo. Between 24 June and 22 July, four nights of guaranteed fun, thanks to Hugo de Ana’s pyrotechnic and floral set-up.
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«Sì, vendetta, tremenda vendetta!» (Yes, vendetta, a terrible vendetta!) The first opera of the so-called “popular trilogy” by Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto will be staged at the Arena from 1 July to 4 July. Four dates to (re)discover an absolute masterpiece of Italian melodrama, with airs such as «Caro nome», «Cortigiani, vil razza dannata» and «La donna è mobile»
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«Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate» (Take flight, thought, on golden wings) and rekindle the fire of Giuseppe Verdi’s first masterpiece, which will be back at the Arena on four nights (between 15 July and 17 August), with the set-up created in 1991 by Gianfranco de Bosio, and the massive set imagined by Rinaldo Olivieri, dominated by a giant Tower of Babel.
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Created in 2008, to bring ballet in unusual places, the Roberto Bolle & Friends Gala was first staged at the Arena in 2012, and, since then, it has remained a regular, beloved event to admire the stars of international ballet perform together with the Master of Ceremonies, Roberto Bolle.
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In the current galaxy of the Arena’s opera superstars, just one name was missing - tenor Juan Diego Flórez, the greatest contemporary interpreter of Rossini and bel canto’s repertoire. On 23 July, the Peruvian artist will finally be on the Arena’s stage, as the absolute star of an unmissable Gala in scenic form.
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«E lucevan le stelle»… (The stars were bright) and they will shine on the Arena from 29 July to 1 September, during the four stagings of the beloved Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, set in 19th century Rome, in the spectacular version created by Hugo de Ana.
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«Un bel dì, vedremo» (One fine day, we shall see) Madama Butterfly (the famous “Japanese tragedy” by Giacomo Puccini) come back to the Arena, in the suggestive set-up by Franco Zeffirelli, embellished by Oscar-winner Emi Wada’s costumes. Or rather, we will admire it on four nights, from 12 August to 7 September. Get your kimono... and your tissues ready.
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After the success of the Jonas Kaufmann Gala Event (2020) and Aida, which, in 2022, saw him in the role of Radamés, the German star (dubbed “the King of tenors”) will be back at the Arena on 20 August, for a new event night, during which he will interpret three different characters is as many opera acts, all in scenic form.
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If, in the second half of the 20th century, the Arena was called “Summer La Scala”, on the night of 31 August 2023, the Verona amphitheatre will host, for the first time ever, the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, directed by Maestro Riccardo Chailly. A unique event combining the history of the two theatres, in the name of great classical music.
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