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A three-act French opera set in Polynesia, adapted from Pierre Loti’s semi-autobiographical novel Rarahu, also titled Le Mariage de Loti. It was Reynaldo Hahn’s first opera. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
In Nagasaki, the young Cio-Cio-San marries U.S. naval officer B. F. Pinkerton, who regards the marriage as temporary. After Pinkerton leaves, she waits three years and gives birth to their son. Pinkerton returns with his American wife, who plans to raise the child. Cio-Cio-San agrees to give him up, bids farewell to her son, and dies by suicide.
French sailor Pierre arrives in Nagasaki and falls in love with a geisha. Through marriage broker Kangourou, he contracts a temporary Japanese marriage with Chrysanthème. She is affectionate but rebuffs Pierre’s declarations, while their friends celebrate. At a festival, jealousy sparks arguments between Pierre and his friend Yves. The couple reconcile before Pierre and Yves sail for Brittany. At sea, Pierre reads Chrysanthème’s letter: she asks him to remember that Japanese women also love and grieve. He casts the lotus flowers she gave him into the sea and asks to forget the marriage.
A three-act French opera set in Polynesia, adapted from Pierre Loti’s semi-autobiographical novel Rarahu, also titled Le Mariage de Loti. It was Reynaldo Hahn’s first opera. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
In Nagasaki, the young Cio-Cio-San marries U.S. naval officer B. F. Pinkerton, who regards the marriage as temporary. After Pinkerton leaves, she waits three years and gives birth to their son. Pinkerton returns with his American wife, who plans to raise the child. Cio-Cio-San agrees to give him up, bids farewell to her son, and dies by suicide.
French sailor Pierre arrives in Nagasaki and falls in love with a geisha. Through marriage broker Kangourou, he contracts a temporary Japanese marriage with Chrysanthème. She is affectionate but rebuffs Pierre’s declarations, while their friends celebrate. At a festival, jealousy sparks arguments between Pierre and his friend Yves. The couple reconcile before Pierre and Yves sail for Brittany. At sea, Pierre reads Chrysanthème’s letter: she asks him to remember that Japanese women also love and grieve. He casts the lotus flowers she gave him into the sea and asks to forget the marriage.