Madama Butterfly

In the organizer's words:

At the center of Giacomo Puccini's Tragedia giapponese, set in Nagasaki at the beginning of the 20th century, is the young geisha Cio-Cio-San, known as "Butterfly". The American naval lieutenant Pinkerton enters into a short-term marriage with Cio-Cio-San - according to the practice in Japan at the time - and rents a suitable cottage for their stay.

While for Pinkerton the liaison was planned from the outset as an erotic pleasure, for Cio-Cio-San it meant not only the opportunity to escape poverty, but also the love of her life ... This tragic love story, which premiered at La Scala in Milan in 1904, still touches the heart today, and the realism with which the cultural misunderstandings and their deadly consequences are portrayed is shocking. Together with star designer Kenzō Takada, Japanese director Amon Miyamoto presents his own Eastern view of the Japanese-American liaison.