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Sonya Yoncheva adds to her repertoire another Puccini heroine when she makes her highly anticipated role debut as Ciò-Ciò-San in Madama Butterfly at the Wiener Staatsoper on June 20.

In Anthony Mingella’s staging and conducted by Antonello Manacorda, Sonya will perform the Japanese Geisha alongside Charles Castronovo, Szilvia Vörös and Boris Pinkhasovich in the other leading roles.

“She is an object of adoration, mastering the spell of attraction – an invitation to fetishism, she is a fetish herself. I was fascinated by the exoticism of this character, by the atmosphere Puccini’s music so beautifully conveys.”, says Sonya about the role in her recently published first book Fifteen Mirrors, which also includes the image you can see here.

In Vienna, Sonya sings four performances on June 20, 23, 26 and 29, 2023. Next season, she will reprise the part at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich and at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin.

[Photo: Victor Santiago / SY11]