Lorenzo Fiorito PhD holds degrees in Modern Languages and Literatures and in the Humanities. He is a linguist, a lecturer, and head of the International Area at Online University Pegaso, Naples, Italy. He is a reviewer of poetry, a music lover, and an opera buff.
Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek stages this new production of Madama Butterfly at Teatro San Carlo in Naples with a fine, penetrating approach.
One of Teatro San Carlo’s most cherished productions of recent years, with an excellent cast of singers and a director who steered at his ease into the libretto’s erratic changes of mood and atmosphere.
Many scenes could risk to be particularly disturbing, but their overt brutality appeared functional, to the structure of the drama. A dark, gloomy story as unambiguously told as it should be.
