Cho-Cho San

Cho-Cho San - dance theater based on the story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long - by Nene Okada and Marco Girardin - on September 8, 2023 - Playhouse, Lower House.

A young woman stands on the beach of Nagasaki. She waits - for a sail on the horizon, an unkept promise, and a love perhaps long lost. One day he will return, Pinkerton has said, she just has to be patient. She, whose name is Cho-Cho San and whom he calls Madame Butterfly. For Mr. Pinkerton, an officer in the U.S. Navy, marriage to the Japanese woman is from the start an erotic game for a limited time, the rules of which he determines. In 1898, the American author John Luther Long publishes the original of Giacomo Puccini's famous opera. At the Unterhaus, Nene Okada and Marco Girardin, who as musician and composer was responsible for "Muinda" and "Reigen", bring the legendary tale to life in poetic images and give Madame Butterfly as Cho-Cho San not only her name back, but also her own voice.