20. Juli through 21. August 2022

MADAME BUTTERFLY Giacomo Puccini Opera in 3 Acts (1904)

The main performance during the Festival is Madame Buttlerfly, one of the most popular Operas from Giaccomo Puccini, an Italian composer born in Lucca. His other renowned works are La Boheme (1896), Tosca (1900) and Turandot (1924).

Description of Madame Butterfly

The Japanese geisha Cio-Cio-San, called Butterfly, revels in happiness when the American naval lieutenant Pinkerton takes her as his wife. The love of the two finds its musical climax in a brilliant duet, but shortly afterwards a warship brings the soldier back to his homeland. Worlds and values collide, because while Pinkerton feels free and marries an American woman, Butterfly waits full of love and longs for three years for her husband to return – together with their child. In her famous aria »Un bel dì vedremo« she imagines in dazzling colours the day when her lover stands before her again. But then Pinkerton appears at the side of his American wife, and Cio-Cio-San makes an irrevocable decision. The musical director is conductor Enrique Mazzola, who was also responsible for the Rigoletto rehearsal. Director Andreas Homoki, artistic director of the Zurich Opera House, brings along an internationally successful team that conjures up Japanese flair on Lake Constance with fine landscape paintings in the magical stage design by Michael Levine – not least in the colourful costumes of Antony McDonald, who was already responsible for Ein Maskenball and La Bohème on the lake stage.

OUR SUGGESTION:

Day 1. Pick up from Zurich Airport and transfer to your hotel in Konstanz (Germany).

Day 2. Day free in Konstanz with possibility of optional tours. In the evening, transfer to Bregenz with a special ship along the Constance Lake. Entrance to the Opera. After the performance, back to Konstanz to the hotel. Day 3. After breakfast transfer to the airport/train station for continuation of your tour and visit in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. All this program can vary according to your needs and expectancies, just let you know your plans and dates you want to assist to the Festival. We do have however, blocked a ticket contingent and organized a fix program starting in Konstanz.