Join us for a pre-show chat with Torodd Wigum before each performance of Madama Butterfly.
Opera Trøndelag invites you to "Pre-talk" 45 minutes before each performance in Bibliotekamfiet at Kimen Cultural Centre. Conductor Torodd Wigum invites you to an introduction to the opera together with various guests to focus on different topics in addition to the opera itself.
The event is FREE
(no ticket)
Guests Pre-talk
Thursday 20 April: Ronald Rørvik and Toni Herlofson
Saturday 22 April Siv Furunes
Sunday 23 April: Oda Fredriksen, Anna Eide (instructor and student at the Opera School), Hans Kristian Ven Røstad (assistant conductor)
Tuesday 25 April Lars Eggen
Wednesday 26 April: Anne Kathrine Slungård
Friday 28 April: Anne Spets and Eva Holm Foosnæs
About the opera
Madama Butterfly by G. Puccini is one of the world's most performed operas, with its constantly topical themes: Culture clashes, love, shame and suicide. Under the direction of Ronald Rørvik, the audience is taken on an aesthetic journey back to Nagasaki, Japan in 1904, where a tragic love story is accompanied by Puccini's fantastic music. There will be powerful emotions and a unique operatic experience when Opera Trøndelag invites you to a magnificent in-house production in Kimen cultural centre.
With Madama Butterfly, Puccini wanted to portray realistic characters and actions that the audience could easily identify with. It tells the story of the naval officer B. F. Pinkerton, who enters into a sham marriage with the 15-year-old Cio-Cio-San. She thinks it's true love. He is only looking for a night of love. The consequences for both of them are tragic.
This is a powerful testimony to what can happen when someone plays with other people's emotions in a lack of respect and understanding of cultural differences, and what fatal and terrible consequences it can have. Puccini's Madama Butterfly conveys a harrowing story with some of the most beautiful and expressive music in opera literature.