Geannuleerd / Satoko Ichihara / Theater Neumarkt
Madama Butterfly
Dates
fri 25 mar 2022 - 20:00
sat 26 mar 2022 - 20:00
location
Theaterstudio
price
€ 22 (standard) / € 20 (65+) / € 17 (-35) / € 10 (-19 years)
duration
1h 40' language
spoken language English & Japanese
The Japanese director and writer Satoko Ichihara radically inverts Puccini's opera
Due to a Covid case in the company we are forced to cancel the performance Madama Butterfly.
Since Satoko Ichihara debuted in 2011 with the performance Insects, her work has been closely followed all over the world. Among other things, she was a guest at the Aichi Triennale, one of the largest international art festivals in Japan. But the Japanese director and writer has not only achieved recognition in her own country. In Europe too, several programmers have been knocking at her door, including for the prestigious German festival Theater der Welt, and Theater Neumarkt in Zürich. Now Ichihara makes her first appearance at DE SINGEL. She takes Puccini’s opera ‘Madama Butterfly’ as her starting point for considering the distorted Western view of Japanese and Asian women. The story was written a hundred years ago, but in the meantime the prejudices have not changed. Where Puccini's opera shows the Western male gaze on Japanese woman, Ichihara inverts this in her Madama Butterfly. She reworks the opera into a story about Western man seen through the eyes of a Japanese woman.
Since Satoko Ichihara debuted in 2011 with the performance Insects, her work has been closely followed all over the world. Among other things, she was a guest at the Aichi Triennale, one of the largest international art festivals in Japan. But the Japanese director and writer has not only achieved recognition in her own country. In Europe too, several programmers have been knocking at her door, including for the prestigious German festival Theater der Welt, and Theater Neumarkt in Zürich. Now Ichihara makes her first appearance at DE SINGEL. She takes Puccini’s opera ‘Madama Butterfly’ as her starting point for considering the distorted Western view of Japanese and Asian women. The story was written a hundred years ago, but in the meantime the prejudices have not changed. Where Puccini's opera shows the Western male gaze on Japanese woman, Ichihara inverts this in her Madama Butterfly. She reworks the opera into a story about Western man seen through the eyes of a Japanese woman.
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