On 17 February 1904 the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) premiered at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano one of the operas that would lead to musical immortality, Madame Butterfly, composed in 03 events and a libretto by Luigi Illica (1857-1919) and Giuseppe Giacosa (1847-1906), two of his most faithful artistic collaborators. This opera, along with La Boheme (1896) and Tosca (1900) form the most famous operatic triad of Puccini, imperishable and sets over more than a century.
Madame Butterfly tells the sad story of Cio Cio San, a young geisha who one day decides to die with honor and could not live with honor. Set in Nagasaki, Japan, to the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, this opera presents the failure of a beautiful romance, that of Cio Cio San, which fails to achieve happiness with the man she loves and she thought ever loved, the American naval officer BF Pinkerton, who on board a U.S. ship reaches your country in the mood to take more than a crossing.
Through a matchmaker old city, Goro, a marriage pact with this dummy with the geisha. For Pinkerton this is only an adventure now that you're far from home, but for Cio Cio San that marriage is a lifelong union. By marrying Pinkerton and defend her love for him will only get the repudiation of his family, who curses her for betraying their customs. Despite this, Cio Cio San remains steadfast in its decision because it believed to be linked to Pinkerton from the same feelings. However, a final end awaits him.
Pinkerton After the mission in Nagasaki, he leaves promising to return. In his absence, Cio Cio San is waiting faithful, but it does alone, but next to the child who is born, the fruit of their union with the American officer. Cio Cio San trust the word of the man who loves and waits, until the day Pinkerton returns from the hand of his wife Kate. Pinkerton does not have the slightest intention of letting his lawful wife, quite the contrary, with the latter choose to ask Cio Cio San that they deliver the child to raise in the United States and provide a promising and advantageous life. Faced with this hard disappointment. Cio-Cio-San agrees to give his son, who is affectionate farewell and dramatically. Moments later commits harakiri .
One of the most famous of this opera will comprise the duet they sing towards the end of Act Cio Cio San and Pinkerton Bimba Dagli occhi pieni di malia contextualized very well made all the promises that are exchanged part of the story. The duo is so touching and beautiful as false are the words of Pinkerton and naive hopes of Cio Cio San. His candor contrasts with the beauty that characterizes him, that did not go unnoticed in the eyes of the naval officer Pinkerton, which earned him the nickname of a young geisha Butterfly . However, none of this enough to make Pinkerton can see it as something more than just an adventure. His power of seduction is that you get on the first night with Butterfly what he wanted: to strip her of her virginity. Delivery because she loves him and because he believes he loves her. For such a big mistake like this will end up paying with his life.
By the second act of the opera, is equally heartbreaking to hear the song that sings the aria Butterfly Un bel dì vedremo wind freeing the exclamation of his most ardent wish to see the man who one day will said he loved her. In the depths of his heart believes that will come to make her happy. She will give the game well not see your ship arrives at port, and anxious wait he says his name in the distance: Butterfly. She did not hesitate to receive it, even shy, with little heart to stop for the excitement to know her again, remembering all the nice words and names of love he gave when he said he loved her. She waits.
Unfortunately this does not happen to Butterfly: Pinkerton returns to the side of Kate, his real wife, and so she ends up opening their eyes and appreciate the full extent of the big lie that he lived. The feeling of being unworthy of all, and herself all the obstacles are not put at Pinkerton's request of wanting to take the child has been born of their union carnal. Leaving mean your child from the discredit preserve might be expected after the mother died. Butterfly dismisses him with Tu, piccolo Iddio and at this point there are no words to express the shock that can be felt by the scene so dramatic that we have before our eyes. Butterfly dies for your child can leave, but tomorrow morning he may feel remorse for the abandonment. Separation is difficult: Butterfly and the mother and only asks his son in that moment in his memory that retains a slight trace of his face, the face of the mother who will not have more.
The Pinkerton attempt late intervention, and robs death of this world a Butterfly, who in their eagerness to comply with the last of its traditions, he chooses to die with honor, recognizing that he could not live with honor.
only to illustrate this last scene the next step http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv3iYSwlz-M link with the interpretation of the Bulgarian soprano Raina Kavaivanska (1934) in the role of Butterfly.
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