{"id":5838,"date":"2020-02-07T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T10:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=5838"},"modified":"2020-02-07T10:31:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T10:31:52","slug":"madama-butterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=5838","title":{"rendered":"Madama Butterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>White Rock Theatre, Thursday 6 February 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ellen Kent\u2019s approach to <em>Madama Butterfly<\/em> is nothing if not traditional. The setting is beautifully crafted and lit, the costumes are comfortably Japanese and the production is undemanding, particularly if you know the work well in the first place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/E-Kent-Butterfly.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/E-Kent-Butterfly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If this can lead to some uncomfortable moments then they swiftly pass. Pinkerton\u2019s glib assumption that he will marry a \u2018real wife in America\u2019 is cheerfully ignored by the Consul\u00a0 whose problems only really start in the second half when Pinkerton brings his wife with him to Nagasaki.<\/p>\n<p>Vitalii Liskovetskyi brings a na\u00efve, boyish charm to Pinkerton but it is difficult to forgive him for his callousness. Iurie Gisca is splendid as Sharpless, the Consul, adding genuine authority and weight to a presentation which can often seem visually superficial. He is matched by Vadim Cernovettky\u2019s passionate Bonze whose brief explosion clouds the rest of the act.<\/p>\n<p>Alyona Kistenyova presents a strong, and strongly sung, Cio-Cio San, happier in the love duet and the final scenes than in the more delicate opening scenes with her family. Myroslava Shvakh-Pekar was an unusually young Suzuki, the voice fully up to part but her appearance disconcerting alongside Cio-Cio San.<\/p>\n<p>The production provides a full orchestra, under the careful guidance of Nicolae Dohotaru and a small but effective chorus.<\/p>\n<p>The company return to Bexhill next year with <em>Tosca<\/em> and <em>Carmen. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Rock Theatre, Thursday 6 February 2020 Ellen Kent\u2019s approach to Madama Butterfly is nothing if not traditional. The setting is beautifully crafted and lit, the costumes are comfortably Japanese and the production is undemanding, particularly if you know the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=5838\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5842,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5838\/revisions\/5842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}