Image: Cau Ferrat Museum, Sitges
Museus de Sitges is presenting a pocket-sized version of Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ on August 9 at 8 p.m. The performance is scheduled in the Saló d’Or of the Palau de Maricel in Sitges, offering an intimate operatic setting for one of the repertory’s best-known tragedies.
The museum’s announcement describes the event as an ‘Òpera de Butxaca,’ or pocket opera, and frames it as a chance to experience opera up close, with proximity to the performers, the beauty of the surroundings and the quality of the interpretation presented as central parts of the evening. The event listing sets the running time from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
According to the program page, Ximena Agurto will sing Cio-Cio-San, with Facundo Muñoz as Pinkerton, Mar Esteve as Suzuki and Lucas Groppo as Sharpless. Elke Sanjosé is listed for musical direction and piano, while Romina Krieger is credited with stage direction. The ticket price is listed at 25 euros.
The museum text situates ‘Madama Butterfly’ in early-20th-century Japan and identifies it as a work that follows the story of Cio-Cio-San, a young geisha whose dreams of love collide with reality. The page highlights some of the opera’s most familiar arias and presents the work as combining lyricism, emotion and tragedy in a narrative that continues to attract audiences worldwide.
Museus de Sitges also notes that the performance will take place in one of its most singular spaces. The Saló d’Or at the Palau de Maricel is identified as the venue, and the listing mentions a glass of cava as part of the experience. The event is part of the museum’s summer programming, presented on the ‘Madama Butterfly’ page on the Museus de Sitges website.
The page provides practical details for audiences, including the venue name, the start time and cast, along with a ticket-buying link. The museum’s own wording emphasizes the setting as part of the production, describing Sitges as a place where light and summer evenings help turn each performance into an immersive encounter with Puccini’s opera.
