Puccini - Madama Butterfly / Barker, Thompson, Keen, Stilwell, Blanchet, Smeets, Bijnen, de Waart, Amsterdam Opera (2005) Review

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(More customer reviews)A reviewer has said that this is not your grandmother's Butterfly. I agree, and it disappointed me.
Turns out, it's "Madama Butterfly, the Oratorio." Singers stand stiffly, usually facing the audience instead of singing passionately to each other. Rarely do they even touch each other.
There is little or no scenery.
Costumes are rather "one-size-fits-all," very plain and colorless, and could easily have been leftovers from Patrice Chereau's production of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung.
Yes, technically the singing is nearly perfect. But it is sterile, with few if any displays of affection or emotion.
Opera was meant to be more than just the singing. It should be a splendidly-staged production that makes it easier for us to step into the intended period or atmosphere.
If all you care about is the music, yes, there is beautiful singing, but the production is more like an oratorio with singers just standing there. I just don't want you to get burned, if you expect to see a production of the Butterfly we have all come to love.


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