Biarritz Pays Basque Opera - "Butterfly"

Gare du Midi, 23 avenue Maréchal Foch

Created in 1904 at La Scala in Milan, Madama Butterfly is one of the most moving operas in the repertoire. Puccini tells the tragic meeting of two worlds: that of Cio-Cio-San, a young idealistic Japanese woman, and that of Pinkerton, an American officer, whose lightness and inconstancy will seal the young woman’s fate. Through music of great delicacy, blending Italian lyricism and oriental colors, Puccini explores love, waiting, abandonment and sacrifice, with a rare emotional intensity. Famous arias such as Un bel dì, vedremo and the choir…