![]() This was only reinforced by Pinkerton not being there in good time. ![]() The blackness and starkness of the final moment made it emotionless and perfunctory. The lack of daylight or scenery made the end (and indeed the whole last act) flat and dull. *Because of all of the latter, and the lack of curtains and intermissions, I was exhausted by the end. Pinkerton, in spite of his offstage "Butterfly!"s, arrives onstage much too late and without any dramatic effect whatsoever. Cio-Cio-San does her thing with the dagger, red lights pour over her, and that's it. By the end nothing was onstage except the black floor, black sky, and Cio-Cio-San, and the puppet running to and fro (finally he went to the side with his blindfold). It's supposed to be morning, daylight! But it was totally black, and the stage got blacker and blacker as it went on. *Instead of the the humming chorus and the Act 2/3 entr'acte-prelude being at a curtain, there was no curtain, but instead a dream ballet sequence was acted out onstage with yet another odd-looking puppet representing the dream-Cio-Cio-San, alongside the real Cio-Cio-San keeping her sitting vigil onstage. ![]() Exhausting! *There was no child, but instead an odd-looking stringless puppet, operated stringlessly by two puppeteers in black, right there onstage with all four of their hands on the puppet. About the end of Act 2, my enthusiasm was flagging a bit, for the following reasons: *There weren't any intermissions or curtains or interludes - only one long 3-hour act with various on-stage scene changes. However, it didn't fulfill its promise 100%. ![]() I felt sure this was going to be my favorite "Butterfly" ever! I was absolutely mesmerized. Let me tell you, the sets and staging in this were breathtakingly beautiful, beyond mere mortal description, and I was captivated from the very first moment. ![]()
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