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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.

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.

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.

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 (!!)

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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.)

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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 :)