Solomia Krushelnitskaya saved the opera Giacomo Puccini
At the Milan Theater La Scala on February 17, 1904, the premiere of Madame Butterfly's opera Giacomo Puccini ended with a complete failure. The whistle of the public accompanied the performance.
Madame Butterfly - Giacomo Puccini's opera in two acts and three parts based on the drama David Belasco's “Geisha”. Puccini hesitated for a long time about whom to entrust the party to Chio-Chio-san, and after much deliberation he chose Rosina Storkio.
At the heart of the opera is the story of the unhappy love of a young Japanese woman Chio-Chio-san. The action takes place in the Japanese town of Nagasaki in the late XIX century. Navy lieutenant American Benjamin falls in love with geisha Cio-Chio-san nicknamed Butterfly. He wants to marry her, swears in eternal love.
Having married Chio-Chio-San, he, in fact, does not give up boyish life. Subsequently, they have a child. Madame Butterfly still loves, but Benjamin is looking for new adventures.
The whistle accompanied the closing of the curtain after the first act. At the beginning of the second - a draft threw up the dress of the singer Rosina Storkio, someone from the audience shouted: “Butterfly is pregnant!”. Next - a squall of mooing, crowing and other obscenities. Newspaper observers were not much more polite. “The unseemly,” wrote some, “boring,” wrote the others.
With the change of the leading actress to the Ukrainian singer Solomiya Krushelnytska, and some details with the division of the two acts into 3 parts, the opera after 3 months was a triumphant success in the Grande Theater in Brescia. The actions of the characters were predictable to the public, but the intrigue remained. The singer charmed the Italian public with her voice and beauty.
Solomiya Krushelnytska's voice - a lyric-dramatic soprano with a range of almost three octaves is a unique phenomenon in opera art. He attracted people by the power of sound, sonority, richness, perfect vocal diction, virtuoso technique.
Madame Butterfly - Giacomo Puccini's opera in two acts and three parts based on the drama David Belasco's “Geisha”. Puccini hesitated for a long time about whom to entrust the party to Chio-Chio-san, and after much deliberation he chose Rosina Storkio.
At the heart of the opera is the story of the unhappy love of a young Japanese woman Chio-Chio-san. The action takes place in the Japanese town of Nagasaki in the late XIX century. Navy lieutenant American Benjamin falls in love with geisha Cio-Chio-san nicknamed Butterfly. He wants to marry her, swears in eternal love.
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Having married Chio-Chio-San, he, in fact, does not give up boyish life. Subsequently, they have a child. Madame Butterfly still loves, but Benjamin is looking for new adventures.
The whistle accompanied the closing of the curtain after the first act. At the beginning of the second - a draft threw up the dress of the singer Rosina Storkio, someone from the audience shouted: “Butterfly is pregnant!”. Next - a squall of mooing, crowing and other obscenities. Newspaper observers were not much more polite. “The unseemly,” wrote some, “boring,” wrote the others.
With the change of the leading actress to the Ukrainian singer Solomiya Krushelnytska, and some details with the division of the two acts into 3 parts, the opera after 3 months was a triumphant success in the Grande Theater in Brescia. The actions of the characters were predictable to the public, but the intrigue remained. The singer charmed the Italian public with her voice and beauty.
Solomiya Krushelnytska's voice - a lyric-dramatic soprano with a range of almost three octaves is a unique phenomenon in opera art. He attracted people by the power of sound, sonority, richness, perfect vocal diction, virtuoso technique.
