I wahed the opera "madame Butterfly" on YouTube. This is a post-production version of the stage per- formed on December 19th last year in valencia, Spain. This production will be available on the inter- net until Jun 19th with subtitles in 6 languages.
The major feature of "Madame Butterfly" directed by Emilio Lopez is in Act 2. She was Madame Butter- fly, who was marriaged to US Navy officer Pinkerton in Acr 1. After Pinkerton left for the United Syates, the second act, in which she and her born child, wandered around his return, began with the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The actual image of the atomic bombing is projected on the stage. The stage turns into a ruin.
I was surprised at this staging. But again, i was immediately convinced that this was exactly what the composer Puccini intended. Puccini did not portray exoticism in the opera "Madame Butterfly". He was protesting the imperial colonialism that was spreding to the world at that time. I have seen several different works of "Madame Butterfly" by video. I also watched the stage where a Japanese singer played Madam Butterfly. Above all, I will never forget the movie "Madame Butterfly" (1954, Toho movie by Japan-Italy) directed by armine Gallone, starring Kaoru Yachigusa. I saw it in 1955, one year later than the year it was first released. I was 10 years old. Enchanted by pretty Kaoru Yachigusa, I went to the projection room after the screening and received a purple-tinted piece of film that was cut during the screening. The movie "Madame Butterfly" has such memories, but it was also a romantic tragic love. Of course, at the age of 10, I couldn't think of colonialism, but I understood the tragic love of "international marriage." (By the way, I immediately revognized the theme that was on the same line as "Madame Butterfly" in the movie "Kiku to Isamu" (1959) directed by Tadashi Imai.)
Currently, Russia is in the midst of a selfish and barbariv invasion to Ukraine. (Russia prohibits the word war of aggression by law.) As if Spanish musicians predicted the invasion of Russia, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, orchestras and choirs wore masks, I was impressed by the sharp- ness of the consciousness of performing the opera "Madame Butterfly". Moreover, it does not end with the performance in its own country, but it is distributed free of charge with subtitles in 6 languages.