May 2022, Oper Frankfurt, Madama Butterfly, opera by Puccini, conductor Antonello Manacorda, director R.B. Schlather, set Johannes Leiacker, costume Doey Lüthi, light Olaf Winter, movement Sonoko Kamimura, dramaturge Konrad Kuhn, photographs Barbara Aumüller

“An enchantingly deadly serious and in every respect slim "Madama Butterfly" in Frankfurt. Schlather's reduction acts as a subtle intensification… Never before seen so keenly that this story is not primarily a love story.”

Frankfurter Rundschau, May 2022
The director R.B. Schlather has brought the play effortlessly from the 1900's to our present day, where sex tourism has become an industry…

FAZ 2022
Johannes Leiacker built a stage abstractly reminiscent of Japan: Two sliding walls with a square view, revealing, hiding, uniting and separating the figures…

FAZ 2022
The direction, which shows neither the conception of children in the first act, nor the suicide in the last act, but outsources everything drastic to the viewer's imagination, is great in its discretion and in its trust in the music.

FAZ 2022

“An enchantingly deadly serious and in every respect slim "Madama Butterfly" in Frankfurt. Schlather's reduction acts as a subtle intensification… Never before seen so keenly that this story is not primarily a love story.”