These were but some of the patterns that multiplied the joyous and horrific emotional obsessions that are at the base of verismo.Īct I, Patricia Racette as Butterfly. Screens flew in and out on which repeating, jagged lines of growing tension were drawn.
Jun Kaneko works primarily in repeated patterns in two dimensional clay, a visual process that brilliantly found its way into Puccini’s verismo - the abstracted, multi-colored umbrellas of the wedding guests was the kaleidoscope of village life, the sliding panel of black and white squares meant the house. The sets and costumes are by Omaha based ceramic artist Jun Kaneko who collaborated with stage director Leslie Swackhamer, a professor at Sam Houston State University (Houston) whose theatrical roots are in Seattle, to create this unique production.
It would hold the stage in any opera house in the opera world. It has since traveled to Madison, Dayton, Vancouver, Honolulu, Atlanta, Philadelphia and Charlotte. The 2006 production itself (design and staging), is from Opera Omaha.
It was an Italian opera, the abstract visual images of a Japanese born American and an American fable that converged magically into artistic totality.
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