Don't cry Butterfly

Don't cry Butterfly is a musical started writing in 2003 by Anna Hurkmans (lyrics and book) and Raffaele Paglione (music). It has been frequently revised and modified over the years. It tells the story of which there is a distant trace between the famous Lucca composer Giacomo Puccini and the oriental dancer, seductress and illustrious lover of the most important men who made history at the beginning of the 1900s, and finally, an alleged spy, captured and sentenced to death by summary execution; Mata Hari. The piece you will hear takes place in the dressing rooms of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Mata Hari is ridiculed by the audience after her performance. Crying and desperate, she will be consoled by a Puccini who awaits her in her dressing room. In the song Don't cry Butterfly their esteem and anxieties are openly confided in front of an often cruel and demanding public. A fascinating and mysterious story. Puccini loses sight of the woman and only after a few years, having learned of her death in 1917, decides to dedicate an opera to her! Opposed by his publisher, Ricordi, by a jealous wife who nags him not to ruin his reputation, burdened by the commitments of Turandot, the cruel princess, whom Puccini does not like (often the composer stops while writing the work...) , the composer, secretly begins to throw some musical sketches, but now there is no more time. The disease is fast and silent. He will die after a futile attempt to intervene in the city of Brussels.
This Musical, much appreciated in England and in the United States, albeit in the form of a reading, was performed on Off-Off Broadway in 2008 and in the prestigious English theater on Drury Lane in London in 2012. The last revision was made with British director Jamie Heyes.
To contact us:
anna.hurkmans@gmail.com
raffaele.paglione@gmail.com

Видео Don't cry Butterfly канала Raffaele Paglione