Live streaming of Madama Butterfly with Petrenko, Buratto, Tetelman and the Berlin Philharmonic

PUCCINI: MADAMA BUTTERFLY | KIRILL PETRENKO, CONDUCTOR | BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER

📅 Streaming live on April 27, 2025, at 19:00 CEST (GMT+2)
📍 Watch on the Digital Concert Hall
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Cast highlights:
– Cio-Cio-San: Eleonora Buratto
– Pinkerton: Jonathan Tetelman
– Suzuki: Teresa Iervolino
– Sharpless: Tassis Christoyannis
– Goro: Didier Pieri
– Rundfunkchor Berlin
– Berliner Philharmoniker

Kirill Petrenko conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in a concert performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, presented without staging and focused on the musical and vocal dimensions of the work. Originally performed in Baden-Baden, this interpretation brings together a cast led by Eleonora Buratto as Cio-Cio-San and Jonathan Tetelman as Pinkerton, alongside the Rundfunkchor Berlin.

The performance offers an opportunity to experience Puccini’s score in a concert setting, highlighting the orchestral writing and vocal interplay at the heart of this opera. It will be streamed live and later available in the Digital Concert Hall’s archive.

OVERVIEW
In Madama Butterfly, Puccini tells the story of Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese geisha who enters into a marriage with American naval officer Pinkerton, believing it to be a lifelong union. For Pinkerton, it is only a temporary arrangement. When he leaves and fails to return, Butterfly waits faithfully with their child, convinced of his eventual return.
Three years later, Pinkerton comes back to Japan—accompanied by his American wife. Devastated by the betrayal, Butterfly makes the ultimate sacrifice in one of opera’s most heartbreaking final scenes.
Drawing on both exoticism and psychological realism, Puccini’s score shifts between delicacy and high drama, offering a poignant critique of cultural arrogance and the cost of misplaced trust.