Chailly conducts the first Butterfly at La Scala

At 112 years since its première, on 7 December the Maestro returns to the Piermarini

stage with the version in two acts conceived by Puccini for its world première at La Scala,

directed by Alvis Hermanis and starring Maria José Siri, Bryan Hymel and Carlos Álvarez.

And in the fortieth year of relations with RAI, the First Night is back on Rai Uno

• The opera
• The 1904 version returns to La Scala
• Conductor and Stage director
• The protagonists
• Cinema, radio and tv

IN ITALIANO

On 7 December Madama Butterfly returns to La Scala conducted by Riccardo Chailly and directed by Alvis Hermanis in the first version that Giacomo Puccini composed in 1904 for our Theatre. The première underlines the link between La Scala and this masterpiece, and is part of the construction process of a historic and musical awareness of the operas of Puccini that constitute one of the key cultural lines of La Scala’s programming.