Madama Butterfly, Puccini at the Circus Maximus

ROME - Madama Butterfly and the loss of paradise. This is the interpretation followed by director Alex Ollè for the staging of Puccini's masterpiece, on July 16 at the Circus Maximus for the summer season of the Teatro dell 'Opera in Rome. This second appointment with the great opera, after the inauguration entrusted to Verdi's '' Il Trovatore '', will see maestro Donato Renzetti on the podium. For the Spanish director, who had signed the direction of the drama at the Baths of Caracalla in 2015, re-proposed the following year in the wake of the success of critics and audiences, it is therefore a return with a rethought setting for the large open-air stage created in the magnificent stadium of Ancient Rome. Next to him the same team with Alfons Flores at the stage, Lluc Castells at the costumes,Marco Filibeck in the lights and Franc Aleu in the videos, Susana Gómez director collaborator. The protagonist of the Japanese tragedy in three acts composed by Puccini in 1903, with libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa by John Luther Long and David Belasco, is the American soprano Corinne Winters, who plays Cio-Cio-San, making her debut in this role for the Opera of Rome. To impersonate Pinkerton the tenor Saimir Pirgu, alternating with Angelo Villari (31 July, 6 August). Adriana Di Paola will be the Suzuki handmaid. Andrzej Filończyk, known to the public for his interpretation of Figaro in the film-opera The Barber of Seville, will be Sharpless. The Chorus is directed by Maestro Roberto Gabbiani.on libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa by John Luther Long and David Belasco, is the American soprano Corinne Winters, who plays Cio-Cio-San, making her debut in this role for the Opera di Roma. To impersonate Pinkerton the tenor Saimir Pirgu, alternating with Angelo Villari (31 July, 6 August). Adriana Di Paola will be the Suzuki handmaid. Andrzej Filończyk, known to the public for his interpretation of Figaro in the film-opera The Barber of Seville, will be Sharpless. The Chorus is directed by Maestro Roberto Gabbiani.on libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa by John Luther Long and David Belasco, is the American soprano Corinne Winters, who plays Cio-Cio-San, making her debut in this role for the Opera di Roma. To impersonate Pinkerton the tenor Saimir Pirgu, alternating with Angelo Villari (31 July, 6 August). Adriana Di Paola will be the Suzuki handmaid. Andrzej Filończyk, known to the public for his interpretation of Figaro in the film-opera The Barber of Seville, will be Sharpless. The Chorus is directed by Maestro Roberto Gabbiani.Suzuki handmaid. Andrzej Filończyk, known to the public for his interpretation of Figaro in the film-opera The Barber of Seville, will be Sharpless. The Chorus is directed by Maestro Roberto Gabbiani.Suzuki handmaid. Andrzej Filończyk, known to the public for his interpretation of Figaro in the film-opera The Barber of Seville, will be Sharpless. The Chorus is directed by Maestro Roberto Gabbiani.