“Madame Butterfly” will be presented at the Opera with remarkable singers and a distinguished conductor – 2024-11-18 10:48:00

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• 0.1 A sad story from the East will be presented – about strong feelings, long waiting, disappointment, withered hopes, brokenness, pain and death.
• 0.2 Dinev enters the image of Cho-Cho-san’s beloved Pinkerton, whom she trusts with all the dedication of her feminine essence, but pays a high price for her sincerity.
• 0.3 The orchestra and choirs of the State Opera – Burgas also participate in the beautiful production – in terms of vision, music and messages.
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On November 19, Tuesday, at 7 p.m the emblematic opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini will be presented on the stage of the Burgas Opera House “Madame Butterfly”, directed by Assoc. Dr. Alexander Tekeliev.

Under the baton of the famous Bulgarian conductor with an enviable international career Ivan Kozhuharovthe beautiful soprano Ioana Zhelezcheva – as Madame Butterfly, the brilliant tenor Georgi Dinev /guest/ – Pinkerton, the famous baritone Alexander Krunev – in the image of Sharples, the charismatic mezzo-soprano Joanna of Cadiztogether with the other wonderful soloists, orchestra and choir, will tell through the means of musical and stage art the tragic story of a woman in love and the devastatingly strong feelings of a devoted female heart.

A sad story from the East will be presented – about strong feelings, long waiting, disappointment, withered hopes, brokenness, pain and death.

The event is the next one with which the Burgas Cultural Institute celebrates the 100th anniversary of the death of the genius Italian composer Giacomo Puccini.

Attendees at the Opera House on Tuesday will have the privilege of watching with bated breath the drama of Cho-Cho-san, whose soul experiences a tragic metamorphosis – from the tender rapture of shared love with US Navy Lieutenant Pinkerton, to the tearing inner choice that leads to conscious self-sacrifice.

The opera prima will perform as Madame Butterfly on the stage of the Opera House on November 19 Joana Zhelezchevawho was irresistible in the complex role, requiring brilliant vocal technique and conditioning, as well as a specific acting approach, on the open stage of the Thracian sanctuary of Begliktash in the summer of 2022. during the Sanctuary Opera Festival.

The tickets for the performance under the star dome of Strandzha were sold out long before the date of the performance. Zhelezcheva’s lyrical timbre completely impresses the emotionality and nature of the Japanese Cho-Cho-san.

The portrayal of US Navy Lieutenant Pinkerton will be portrayed by the tenor Georgi Dinev /guest/, whose brilliant performance the Burgas audience had the pleasure of witnessing in the role of Don Jose in the opera “Carmen” by Georges Bizet – in m. March 2022, as well as from the performance of “Madame Butterfly”, dedicated to World Opera Day – October 25, 2023, on the stage of the Opera House.

Dinev enters the image of Cho-Cho-san’s beloved Pinkerton, whom she trusts with all the dedication of her feminine essence, but pays a high price for her sincerity.

In the role of the American consul in Nagasaki Sharpless enters the famous Bulgarian baritone, but with an enviable artistic biography – Alexander Krunev, who presents the complex image with vocal mastery and psychological skill. The exquisite mezzo-soprano will star as Madame Butterfly’s trusted maid Suzuki Joanna of Cadiz, she is a gentle Suzuki, with the cultivated restraint typical of Japanese culture, beneath whose surface lies an agitated sea of ​​emotions. Fitting into the overall picture of the Eastern fairy tale will also be: Kalina Popova, mezzo-soprano – as Kate Pinkerton – the wife of US Navy Lt. Pinkerton, Yani Nikolov, tenor – GoroLubomir Todorov, tenor – Prince YamadoriKostadin Mechkov, too – Uncle Bonzo, Ivan Grozev, too – as Imperial Commissioner and Notary, Cho-Cho-San’s Mother – Blagovesta Beleva, soprano Cho-Cho-San’s cousin – the soprano Stefka Hristozova.

All the artists in the remarkable cast convey the poignant story with the cultivated restraint typical of Japanese culture, beneath the surface of which lies an agitated sea of ​​emotion, and reveal in an inimitable way the essence of art – to shake, purify and bring to the surface the transformed pain of empathy with a tragic human story from the East.

Connoisseurs eagerly await the vocal and artistic partnership of Ioana Zhelezcheva with Georgi Dinev, who will surely touch the emotional world of those present – both with their gentle timbre shades and with the powerful outburst of their rich voices.

The scenography of “Madame Butterfly”, sustained in the minimalistic Eastern style, is on Boris Stoinov, is an artist of exquisite costumes Tsvetanka Petkova-Stoynova. The choir with a conductor Alexander Chepanov achieved an enviable balance, purity and grace – like the feeling of a leisurely walk in a beautiful Japanese cherry orchard.

Stability and construction of the dramatic line – in an incomparable Puccini way, conveying the true charge of the musical text – as a thought, emotion, generated feelings, as a power of empathy, as construction and dynamics, is also shown by the orchestra with a concertmaster Hristo Belchev.

The orchestra and choirs of the State Opera – Burgas also participate in the beautiful production – in terms of vision, music and messages.

The action of “Madame Butterfly” developed at the beginning of the 19th and 20th centuries in Nagasaki. The story is about a young geisha, Cho-Cho-san, who is named “Butterfly” because of her beauty and grace. The geisha is in love with US Navy Lieutenant Pinkerton.

The sense of destiny of her feelings and her inner urge are so strong that she defies the traditions of her people and marries them. The heart in love does not allow that its love-accelerated rhythm diverges from the calculation and inconsistency of her chosen one…

The story of Madame Butterfly is the tragedy of the collision of two worlds: Western and Eastern, masculine and feminine, extroverted and introverted. And the paradox is that a civilized person actually turns out to be a barbarian, such as attitude, refusal of responsibility, inconstancy of feelings and desires, failure to keep a man’s promise, denial of the sanctity of words that condemn two souls to each other.

But for the young Japanese woman, the precepts of ancient traditions, which seem “savage” and archaic enough for the Western mind, the concepts of “sacred union”, “loyalty”, “devotion”, “love” have a weight greater than even the price of life itself .

Cho-cho-san is a beautiful woman bearing the typical characteristics of the Eastern soul. But despite its apparent fragility, the “Butterfly” shows unexpected resilience, following its principles until the end of its earthly journey, marked by tragic self-sacrifice.

You can find tickets for “Madame Butterfly” at the box office of the Opera House, at the “Chasovnika” box office /in front of the “Bulgaria” hotel/, as well as in the Grabo networks –

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