ARENA DI VERONA

Butterfly, a grandiose co-production between the Arena di Verona and Operama. This production with projections and lights paved the way for a technological evolution in the world of International Opera. Operama still pursues this way of innovating Opera with highly technical and innovative productions.

A full house in the Arena for Puccini’s opera, which will go to London in November.

A technological and poetic “Madama Butterfly”, which projects the seventy-seventh Arenian Festival. These are the characteristics of the last opera on the bill, which made its debut yesterday in front of a large audience, about 12,000 spectators for a respectable income.

In the part of the proragonists Daniela Dessi (Cio-Cio-San), Salvatore Licitra (Pinkerton) and Roberto Servile (Sharpless).

The long-awaited new staging of Puccini’s masterpiece has attracted the attention of the public and national critics for the use of Operama’s new visual technologies.

This equipment projects virtual images of the unfortunate Cio-Cio-Sun onto the steps covered by a huge white sheet, drastically reducing the use of traditional sets.

The stage is in fact empty, animated only by the projections in which the vocal protagonists act, totally immersed in the plot of the opera.

This implies that there are no scene changes (there is only one interval, at the end of the first act) and a saving in the cost of stage settings.

The use of such equipment, which also employs sound sources around the mystic gulf and the stage to achieve uniformity of sound in every corner of the amphitheatre, opens a new course in the realisation of Aeneas’ performances.

A new course also from the point of view of production synergies, since this realization has been made possible thanks to the concrete union of Verona Fiere and the transfer that this production will make in London from 12 to 19 November, at the Wembley Arena.