'Productions of it have fallen victim to some tropes, to stereotypes, but that’s not the core of the piece. It’s the emotional experience of Butterfly that captures us as an audience,' says BostLyricOpera's Bradley Vernatter.
Dinyar Vania and Yunah Lee in a 2012 production of"Madama Butterfly" from Boston Lyric Opera.
The idea for “The Butterfly Process” came about after BLO’s intended staging of “Madama Butterfly,” scheduled to open in the fall of 2020, was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was pushed to the following autumn, but in early 2021, the team began “reevaluating what productions we were putting on our stage and what stories we were telling,” said Bradley Vernatter, acting Stanford Calderwood general and artistic director.
The first conversation featured guest Kunio Hara, a professor at the University of South Carolina, whose interests include Puccini’s operas. During the discussion, speakers addressed the caricatures and depictions of geishas in “Madama Butterfly,” pointing out that some of these representations may have come out of Western anxiety about Japan’s emergence as a military power.
Nina Yoshida Nelsen is a mezzo-soprano who was originally meant to perform the role of Suzuki, Cio-Cio-San’s maid and friend. For her, she said that caricatures seen throughout history of how Japanese women act and behave have led to incidences of hatred and violence, pointing to recent cases in the United States.
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