I have heard this production in september 2023 when I came from g ermany: it was great!!
@matthewtravisano1097Ай бұрын
Wow, this was a choice.
@claudiazamora47502 ай бұрын
I´m watching this before a Butterfly at the MET of NY...I hope their will represent what Puccini writed....I hope !
@LiubovShrivastava2 ай бұрын
Beautiful!
@notAsoccerMom2 ай бұрын
This is the problem with higher education. NO artist should be subject to the limits, creative and otherwise, of DEI ! Shame on you.
@bozarts223 ай бұрын
Remarkable modern opera with a huge Black American history that we all need to know! Brava! Rhiannon! Open our eyes!💝
@lulubelleyclarissa3 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@paolocleani98993 ай бұрын
Grazie Puccini...
@Alejandro-uk5qo3 ай бұрын
'PromoSM' 🤩
@villabosch12343 ай бұрын
I am from Australia. Born here on lands that were stolen from those already here before my ancestors came. Our history so very different from Americas and yet I find this conversation captivating. The investigation into the real stories, the historical twisting of truth, the lies. The beauty of taking this man's story and revealing a depth of understanding of lives in the past. The depiction of the ordinary human condition and its strengths and resilience in such horrific circumstances. The power of music that survived and went on to impact the entire planet. The development of our modern english language and recognising that immersed within are words from hundreds of years ago from West Africa. Some of these expressions you mentioned even now part of general english language, not just American English. I would love to be able to see the opera. I wonder if it will travel. It is a story of American history but also a story of world history. I am very familiar with Rhiannon Giddens' music ( a truly brilliant musician)and it has been through my following of her work that I have discovered this story.
@yoshishimizu40564 ай бұрын
Chinese butterfly.
@YelleHughes4 ай бұрын
With Cerberus, fire and brimstone the only ones there to greet you.😂
@lucilleferragamo85765 ай бұрын
So excited for this! 🎶❤️ See you Friday night.
@palotecproducts5 ай бұрын
Thank you for this “ introduction “ no doubt it will enhance our experience this afternoon at the theater
@MrInterestingthings7 ай бұрын
So good to heat th I s and i enjoyed her telling. Cant wait to hesr Cendrillons version too!
@thegreatatheismo50057 ай бұрын
So, this is what we Opera lovers have to look forward to? Beloved historical works that will be watered down and symbolically castrated for fear of …maybe… offending someone? Is this what they mean by “woke”? Is this professor who presents this nonsense so much more sensitive or is it just willful ignorance or denial of historical context? What's next on the list? Turandot might offend a Chinese person? Carmen is pro-tobacco and therefore unacceptable? You can forget about Porgy and Bess. I’m appalled. I tuned out after about 5 minutes.
@notAsoccerMom2 ай бұрын
EXACTLY. Higher education in 2024 is a joke.
@thegreatatheismo50052 ай бұрын
@@notAsoccerMom I wouldn't go THAT far.
@notAsoccerMom2 ай бұрын
@@thegreatatheismo5005 I would. It’s been illustrated very well these last few weeks
@thegreatatheismo50052 ай бұрын
@@notAsoccerMom Maybe so, but what does that have to do with Mdm. Butterfly and this idiotic commentary from a BU professor who shoud know better??
@notAsoccerMom2 ай бұрын
@@thegreatatheismo5005 You answered your own question. These schools are filled with professors like her. I pisses me off that she teaches kids who are serious about music this 'progressive' nonsense. She's not alone.
@annettegrantham79387 ай бұрын
I concur with your assessment. If I can do something, please let me know.
@margarettigue39048 ай бұрын
YAY ALLISON!!!
@dinahbodkin83908 ай бұрын
Outstanding preview. Thank you so much! I look forward to Wednesday night's performance.
@AnnaMarieBooth.Educator8 ай бұрын
Agree with Emmett Price's closing statements about the stellar genius Rhiannon Giddens!
@AnnaMarieBooth.Educator8 ай бұрын
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🤗🤗
@katerinagrigolia644110 ай бұрын
I am sorry. It was horrible. Make YOUR MUSIC, your story and name it how you want. I was very disappointed. It was like a beautiful flower was dirtyed with mud. Incredible , horrifying and boring
@Vikingvideos5010 ай бұрын
Would love to see this entire production
@vivianaplanine261210 ай бұрын
Thank you, I love your presentation, but I didn't like the BLO performance, it didn't make sense. The translation was terrible and the whole scene where Madame Butterfly tells she is 15 and about her father MORTO! is sang by Pinkerton? The first act in the club while singing about la "casa a sofietto" is totally absurd. The second and third acts worked better because Suzuki and Ciociosun are good singers, but "un bel di" from the table top ? how can you see the Lincoln? Also at the end the child died, if you change the ending you better killed Pinkerton! If you want to approach new themes write new operas and let "Madama Butterfly" represents the time in which the opera was written.
@velvet_echo10 ай бұрын
Haha I love your critique. Who are you? What are your credentials? I am very curious now :)
@JosephJones-jj5sm2 ай бұрын
Really sorry I cannot get to see this work
@paulasteffen985410 ай бұрын
Thank you! This was fabulous! Can't wait to see the opera tomorrow :)
@fecpnr10 ай бұрын
Excellent language skills, this song is delivered with great sensitivity. Respect!
@tatianaefremova707510 ай бұрын
Gorgeous voices, music is the best, BUT!!!! I can not believe that the story was changed. I really don't see a reason why someone would change Puccini's story. It became impossible to get to see true classical operas. BLO makes only one per year. But it's only the name. Story was changed.
@mq225010 ай бұрын
Absolutely wonderful performance!
@joannealvarez54310 ай бұрын
❤ Canción hermosa, cantada bellísimamente.
@bostonviewer543010 ай бұрын
This production seems to distort more than it answers. First of all where are Butterfly and Suzuki in this scene? Not in San Francisco. Looks like they're in Oklahoma. And why would an American Consul come to visit 2 Japanese women in an internment camp and how would they see Pinkerton's ship or hear a canon shot in the San Francisco Harbor? It's in the score and libretto that Butterfly sees him through a telescope. How? Internment camps were all inland in places like Tule Lake, Manzanar, Poston and Gila River. Look at the map! Puccini and Giacosa knew what they wanted on stage and this is not it. I respect the importance of telling the story of the internment of American Citizens of Japanese descent but one has to use the right filters and honor the intentions of the composer and libretto to give audiences authenticity. Perhaps a new opera would be in order not the distortion of a masterpiece. This is an important piece of American history to be told but this is not a good way of doing it.
@kennethwong884310 ай бұрын
Many of Shakespeare's plays have been adapted to modern settings for better or worse. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't; that's art.
@bostonviewer543010 ай бұрын
I agree. And, I have seen a number of Opera productions set in different times and places that have worked but most do not because those directors tried to bend the operas to their will rather than finding a way to make it truly work. Peter Sellars' Cosi Fan Tutti was a great success many years ago and is a good example that did not tamper with the libretto. Just follow the words. If the text is very specific to time and place, as is Madama Butterfly, better to leave perfection alone. @@kennethwong8843
@tatianaefremova707510 ай бұрын
Absolutely horrible performance. I could not believe it. Horrible. I wanted to close my eyes and just listen. Everything else was terrible. The story was "modified", the decoration and dresses were terrible. I could not believe it's possible to ruin Puccini. And, why, if they do only one classical performance per year, WHY could not they just keep the original!!! I was waiting for classical opera so long, but it seems, now, we can not even enjoy this. Everything has to be redone, destroyed to someone's understanding.
@user-xu3wo1sf8b10 ай бұрын
FriendlyFire:: "Star-Crossed Love" is universal as in the German operetta, "Land of Smiles." Even, (maybe, same gender) "love" can never told enough. ( Show Boat, Romeo and Juliet). In the "real world" ture love does NOT always triphumpf...How many people die 💔 broken hearted ? Love lost...
@bostonviewer543010 ай бұрын
OH MY.... does no one know the art of LEGATO singing. Words should not drive the musical line; music should! They don't even sound professional!!! Are they conservatory students? Is no one at Boston Lyric Opera coaching their singers? Perhaps an afternoon of listening to recordings of Price, Scotto, Tebaldi, Freni, De Los Angeles etc might give these singers an idea of what true Italianate legato singing is about. Re-imagining operas into wherever directors think will make opera more relevant to younger audiences will never make up for lack of great singing.
@jokeyjax10 ай бұрын
Love it! Can’t wait to see it tonight!!
@robertwhitson747110 ай бұрын
The 1,648,723rd production of Madam Butterfly. Gee, how incredibly exciting (!!)
@toriqul_jkt10 ай бұрын
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@robertwhitson747110 ай бұрын
The 1,648,723rd production of Madam Butterfly. Gee, how incredibly exciting (!!)
@ER1CwC11 ай бұрын
This is actually a nuanced perspective on this issue, and I very much appreciate it. One thing to keep in mind too, though, is that the struggle that America is having (as well as Canada and the United Kingdom) with how to portray minority groups emerges from the fact that America both has a significant number of minorities _and_ actually cares about equality. To paint with a broad brush, one reason why countries that view themselves explicitly as monocultural rather than multicultural (including Japan, I think) don't grapple with this issue at all is that there is close to zero recognition that minority groups should be treated as equals to the majority group: minorities, according to this view, should be thankful that they are allowed in the country at all as guests. When it comes to Japan specifically, an additional complicating factor regarding Western classical music is that the Japanese, for whatever reason, love it (and I don't think that it's because they have a "colonial" mindset). There are lots of orchestral, symphonic, and operatic companies in Tokyo in particular, and they all program overwhelmingly Western music. So, the geisha issue in Butterfly is not an issue in Japan, not just because the Japanese experience "is centered," but also because they are proud that a renowned Western composer wrote a piece about a Japanese character. (The same applies for Turandot in China.)
@mikebat12311 ай бұрын
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@heres2music Жыл бұрын
Enlightening conversation !
@vangieram7325 Жыл бұрын
Honorary doctorate from Princeton U and Pulitzer awardee for music 2023 ! Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels for OMar! wow
@debsylvester2012 Жыл бұрын
I am so overjoyed that this magnificent soul will rise again in song, dance. The wonder of how music will move us to dancing, embracing and cherishing the real history of a hero. Thank you for all you do. Keep going. ☮️
@jimingli Жыл бұрын
cant wait to see it next Saturday!!!!!!
@casperoonie Жыл бұрын
Damn she can really sing!
@shunyuanchen1990 Жыл бұрын
Great lecture and wonderful show!🥹
@cgavin95322 жыл бұрын
Why cut the video directly before the high C if not to annoy the viewer?
@willforever61372 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@belizeguy3 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Looking forward to seeing this.
@trumpeterchris3 жыл бұрын
This looks awesome!
@heathertietsort7333 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! Bravo!
@nilsschaper12293 жыл бұрын
Sieht fantastisch aus. Freue mich schon MEGA auf den Film und den Weg, den neuen Oper beschreiten wird. Insbesondere auf Nico Muhlys Komposition und Isabel Leonards Gesang :)
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I have heard this production in september 2023 when I came from g ermany: it was great!!
Wow, this was a choice.
I´m watching this before a Butterfly at the MET of NY...I hope their will represent what Puccini writed....I hope !
Beautiful!
This is the problem with higher education. NO artist should be subject to the limits, creative and otherwise, of DEI ! Shame on you.
Remarkable modern opera with a huge Black American history that we all need to know! Brava! Rhiannon! Open our eyes!💝
Thank you!
Grazie Puccini...
'PromoSM' 🤩
I am from Australia. Born here on lands that were stolen from those already here before my ancestors came. Our history so very different from Americas and yet I find this conversation captivating. The investigation into the real stories, the historical twisting of truth, the lies. The beauty of taking this man's story and revealing a depth of understanding of lives in the past. The depiction of the ordinary human condition and its strengths and resilience in such horrific circumstances. The power of music that survived and went on to impact the entire planet. The development of our modern english language and recognising that immersed within are words from hundreds of years ago from West Africa. Some of these expressions you mentioned even now part of general english language, not just American English. I would love to be able to see the opera. I wonder if it will travel. It is a story of American history but also a story of world history. I am very familiar with Rhiannon Giddens' music ( a truly brilliant musician)and it has been through my following of her work that I have discovered this story.
Chinese butterfly.
With Cerberus, fire and brimstone the only ones there to greet you.😂
So excited for this! 🎶❤️ See you Friday night.
Thank you for this “ introduction “ no doubt it will enhance our experience this afternoon at the theater
So good to heat th I s and i enjoyed her telling. Cant wait to hesr Cendrillons version too!
So, this is what we Opera lovers have to look forward to? Beloved historical works that will be watered down and symbolically castrated for fear of …maybe… offending someone? Is this what they mean by “woke”? Is this professor who presents this nonsense so much more sensitive or is it just willful ignorance or denial of historical context? What's next on the list? Turandot might offend a Chinese person? Carmen is pro-tobacco and therefore unacceptable? You can forget about Porgy and Bess. I’m appalled. I tuned out after about 5 minutes.
EXACTLY. Higher education in 2024 is a joke.
@@notAsoccerMom I wouldn't go THAT far.
@@thegreatatheismo5005 I would. It’s been illustrated very well these last few weeks
@@notAsoccerMom Maybe so, but what does that have to do with Mdm. Butterfly and this idiotic commentary from a BU professor who shoud know better??
@@thegreatatheismo5005 You answered your own question. These schools are filled with professors like her. I pisses me off that she teaches kids who are serious about music this 'progressive' nonsense. She's not alone.
I concur with your assessment. If I can do something, please let me know.
YAY ALLISON!!!
Outstanding preview. Thank you so much! I look forward to Wednesday night's performance.
Agree with Emmett Price's closing statements about the stellar genius Rhiannon Giddens!
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🤗🤗
I am sorry. It was horrible. Make YOUR MUSIC, your story and name it how you want. I was very disappointed. It was like a beautiful flower was dirtyed with mud. Incredible , horrifying and boring
Would love to see this entire production
Thank you, I love your presentation, but I didn't like the BLO performance, it didn't make sense. The translation was terrible and the whole scene where Madame Butterfly tells she is 15 and about her father MORTO! is sang by Pinkerton? The first act in the club while singing about la "casa a sofietto" is totally absurd. The second and third acts worked better because Suzuki and Ciociosun are good singers, but "un bel di" from the table top ? how can you see the Lincoln? Also at the end the child died, if you change the ending you better killed Pinkerton! If you want to approach new themes write new operas and let "Madama Butterfly" represents the time in which the opera was written.
Haha I love your critique. Who are you? What are your credentials? I am very curious now :)
Really sorry I cannot get to see this work
Thank you! This was fabulous! Can't wait to see the opera tomorrow :)
Excellent language skills, this song is delivered with great sensitivity. Respect!
Gorgeous voices, music is the best, BUT!!!! I can not believe that the story was changed. I really don't see a reason why someone would change Puccini's story. It became impossible to get to see true classical operas. BLO makes only one per year. But it's only the name. Story was changed.
Absolutely wonderful performance!
❤ Canción hermosa, cantada bellísimamente.
This production seems to distort more than it answers. First of all where are Butterfly and Suzuki in this scene? Not in San Francisco. Looks like they're in Oklahoma. And why would an American Consul come to visit 2 Japanese women in an internment camp and how would they see Pinkerton's ship or hear a canon shot in the San Francisco Harbor? It's in the score and libretto that Butterfly sees him through a telescope. How? Internment camps were all inland in places like Tule Lake, Manzanar, Poston and Gila River. Look at the map! Puccini and Giacosa knew what they wanted on stage and this is not it. I respect the importance of telling the story of the internment of American Citizens of Japanese descent but one has to use the right filters and honor the intentions of the composer and libretto to give audiences authenticity. Perhaps a new opera would be in order not the distortion of a masterpiece. This is an important piece of American history to be told but this is not a good way of doing it.
Many of Shakespeare's plays have been adapted to modern settings for better or worse. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't; that's art.
I agree. And, I have seen a number of Opera productions set in different times and places that have worked but most do not because those directors tried to bend the operas to their will rather than finding a way to make it truly work. Peter Sellars' Cosi Fan Tutti was a great success many years ago and is a good example that did not tamper with the libretto. Just follow the words. If the text is very specific to time and place, as is Madama Butterfly, better to leave perfection alone. @@kennethwong8843
Absolutely horrible performance. I could not believe it. Horrible. I wanted to close my eyes and just listen. Everything else was terrible. The story was "modified", the decoration and dresses were terrible. I could not believe it's possible to ruin Puccini. And, why, if they do only one classical performance per year, WHY could not they just keep the original!!! I was waiting for classical opera so long, but it seems, now, we can not even enjoy this. Everything has to be redone, destroyed to someone's understanding.
FriendlyFire:: "Star-Crossed Love" is universal as in the German operetta, "Land of Smiles." Even, (maybe, same gender) "love" can never told enough. ( Show Boat, Romeo and Juliet). In the "real world" ture love does NOT always triphumpf...How many people die 💔 broken hearted ? Love lost...
OH MY.... does no one know the art of LEGATO singing. Words should not drive the musical line; music should! They don't even sound professional!!! Are they conservatory students? Is no one at Boston Lyric Opera coaching their singers? Perhaps an afternoon of listening to recordings of Price, Scotto, Tebaldi, Freni, De Los Angeles etc might give these singers an idea of what true Italianate legato singing is about. Re-imagining operas into wherever directors think will make opera more relevant to younger audiences will never make up for lack of great singing.
Love it! Can’t wait to see it tonight!!
The 1,648,723rd production of Madam Butterfly. Gee, how incredibly exciting (!!)
The video is very nice. But your channel has no SEO tags. There are no keywords to rank your channel for; So the channel doesn't rank. Your channel's videos are not SEO; So despite uploading videos regularly, your video views and subscribers are very low. So solving all these problems will definitely increase your video views and subscribers.
The 1,648,723rd production of Madam Butterfly. Gee, how incredibly exciting (!!)
This is actually a nuanced perspective on this issue, and I very much appreciate it. One thing to keep in mind too, though, is that the struggle that America is having (as well as Canada and the United Kingdom) with how to portray minority groups emerges from the fact that America both has a significant number of minorities _and_ actually cares about equality. To paint with a broad brush, one reason why countries that view themselves explicitly as monocultural rather than multicultural (including Japan, I think) don't grapple with this issue at all is that there is close to zero recognition that minority groups should be treated as equals to the majority group: minorities, according to this view, should be thankful that they are allowed in the country at all as guests. When it comes to Japan specifically, an additional complicating factor regarding Western classical music is that the Japanese, for whatever reason, love it (and I don't think that it's because they have a "colonial" mindset). There are lots of orchestral, symphonic, and operatic companies in Tokyo in particular, and they all program overwhelmingly Western music. So, the geisha issue in Butterfly is not an issue in Japan, not just because the Japanese experience "is centered," but also because they are proud that a renowned Western composer wrote a piece about a Japanese character. (The same applies for Turandot in China.)
Brand new release! A lively piece for full Orchestra and Piano in seven-time, hope to lift your Summer spirits- in seven! kzread.info/dash/bejne/emGgtqx_qZeWobg.html Thanks!
Enlightening conversation !
Honorary doctorate from Princeton U and Pulitzer awardee for music 2023 ! Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels for OMar! wow
I am so overjoyed that this magnificent soul will rise again in song, dance. The wonder of how music will move us to dancing, embracing and cherishing the real history of a hero. Thank you for all you do. Keep going. ☮️
cant wait to see it next Saturday!!!!!!
Damn she can really sing!
Great lecture and wonderful show!🥹
Why cut the video directly before the high C if not to annoy the viewer?
Awesome!
Fascinating! Looking forward to seeing this.
This looks awesome!
Beautiful! Bravo!
Sieht fantastisch aus. Freue mich schon MEGA auf den Film und den Weg, den neuen Oper beschreiten wird. Insbesondere auf Nico Muhlys Komposition und Isabel Leonards Gesang :)