Staatsoper Hamburg and Vincent Boussard’s new staging of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly brings to life the moving tragedy of Japanese geisha Cio-Cio San
Madama Butterfly
Opera
Ariadne auf Naxos
Glyndebourne
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Subscribe NowGlyndebourne’s wartime history as a home for evacuee children is the ingenious context for a new production of this unclassifiable entertainment in which low comedy and high tragedy compete for our attention, ‘borne aloft by Strauss’s divine music and Hofmannsthal’s visionary poetry’. At the centre of this production from Katharina Thoma is the noble, tragic figure of the abandoned Ariadne herself, in a haunting performance from Soile Isokoski, ‘with brilliant support from the pit’ (The Independent).
Cast & Crew
Thomas Allen (Music Master), Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), (Composer), Laura Claycomb (Zerbinetta), Dmitri Vargin (Harlequin), Sergey Skorokhodov (Bacchus), James Kryshak (Scaramuccio), (Director)