Italy
TEATRO ALLA SCALA, MILAN
World Premiere
Music ***
Staging ***
Review by Karyl Charna Lynn Photography by Marco Brescia & Rudy Amisano
Italy’s famed opera house tried to erase the bitter taste of Madama Butterfly’s failed world premiere 112 years ago by creating an idealised vision of Japan: sumptuous costumes, Kabuki theatre’s dazzling stylised movements, projected prints by Hiroshige and Utamaro of early 1900s Japan and an outstanding cast. The gorgeous spectacle garnered 13 minutes of applause from the celebrity-filled firstnight audience that launched La Scala’s new season; but it couldn’t obscure the weaknesses in Puccini’s original version.
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