This Puccini might be the most beautiful opera ever written - and the star soprano is the pick of a series of fine performances
the most beautiful opera ever written? Its exquisite score has to be in the top handful. The story, though, is agonising. American navy lieutenant B F Pinkerton marries and abandons Cio-Cio-San – Butterfly – a 15-year-old Japanese geisha, leaving her pregnant and longing for a love that will never return. Three years later he comes back with his American wife to adopt Butterfly’s child, upon which the distraught young mother takes her own life.
Hongni Wu as Suzuki and Asmik Grigorian as Cio-Cio-San in ‘Madama Butterfly’ at the Royal Opera House Two cultures are shown in head-on collision via the thorough work of Japanese movement and costume consultants, respectively Sonoko Kamimura and Etsuko Handa; and the care and restraint of Butterfly and Suzuki’s body language make the emotional breakthroughs all the more powerful.
Still, Puccini’s music for his teenage heroine can only be sung properly by the world’s most technically accomplished mature sopranos, and if that isn’t theatrically “authentic”, so be it. This time Butterfly is the current shooting star of opera, Lithuanian soprano: an imperious presence, canny, stubborn and impassioned. Her phenomenal voice is not warm, but has white-hot capabilities. She wields its intense focus and searing cut-through with expert pacing and to overwhelming effect.
On the downside, Act II seemed to lose energy, attested by at least one unforced musical error and some aimless visual lingering. And in the end, Butterfly dies alone. I wish the cowardly Pinkerton, heard off stage, would witness the devastation he has caused.
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