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Teatro Verdi, ''Madama Butterfly''

Trieste

One of the sketches by Pier Paolo Bisleri.The backdrop with the stylized landscape and the separés will be realized with white ASC - Sceno muslin.
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... with a large BGO - Gobelin tulle backdrop painted with a female subject cloaked in red, inspired by kabuki theatre, which will close the entire proscenium when illuminated from the front ...
... or, if the tulle is only partially illuminated, the subject painted on the tulle will remain superimposed on the characters and the scene behind it.The great female figure ...

... is painted on the backdrop made of BGO - Gobelin tulle, and the black ideograms too. Cio-cio-san and Suzuki can be seen in transparency through the tulle. At their shoulders, the painted backdrop made of ASC - Sceno muslin that shows a stylized Japanese landscape.
Characterized by a refined kabuki inspiration, the scenography is based on the use of backdrops made of painted ASC - Sceno muslin and BGO - Gobelin tulle.
An intense red halo has just come down to wind the characters, is announcing that Butterfly's tragedy, knelt on the tatami, is about to be consumed.
Madama Butterfly
Japanese tragedy in three acts
Music
Giacomo Puccini, (1858-1924)
Libretto
Giuseppe Giacosa
Luigi Illica
from the homonym tragedy by John Luther Long and David Belasco
First night
Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 17/2/1904
Scenography,
costume design
Pier Paolo Bisleri
Scenographic workshop direction
Giampiero Ferlan (1948-2014)
Stage direction
Giulio Ciabatti
Staging
Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi of Trieste
Season
2004 / 2005

Materials used in this production

ASC - Sceno

Muslin and canvas

BGO - Gobelin

Scrim and bobbinet fabrics

Flat making

Fabric: tailoring types

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