Kinkaleri remixes Puccini's Madame Butterfly in Italian tour

The Italian performance group Kinkaleri, founded thirty years ago, has created a new interpretation of Puccini's Madame Butterfly that blends expressive forms and engages both adults and children. The production abandons traditional lyrical writing for a communicative, powerful approach that makes the opera's emotional and cultural layers accessible. Kinkaleri highlights the coexistence of contrasting feelings (love and selfishness, sweetness and harshness, fury and remission) and clashing cultures (tradition and modernity, East and West). The group previously staged Nessun Dorma from Turandot in 2010. The adaptation and direction are by Massimo Conti, Marco Mazzoni, and Gina Monaco, featuring Yanmei Yang and Marco Mazzoni. The tour includes performances on July 12 at Sferisterio di Santarcangelo di Romagna for Festival Internazionale del Teatro in Piazza, July 27 at Castello degli Ezzelini di Bassano del Grappa for Operaestate Festival, September 17 at Casa Teatro Ragazzi e Giovani di Torino, September 18 at Teatro di Vetro di Milano for MITO SettembreMusica, September 25 at Teatro Bolognini di Pistoia, and October 23 at Sagra Malatestiana di Rimini.