A debut in the opera Madama Butterfly

Mariusz Treliński’s staging – one of the Polish film and theatre director’s most successful productions – was first mounted at the Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa in Warsaw in 1999. Two years later it was staged by the Washington National Opera, and in 2005 the Mariinsky Theatre followed suit.

“It’s not just the best interpretation of Madama Butterfly that I have ever seen; Treliński’s staging is neither more nor less than one of the most beautiful and magical opera productions in general: it is original, fresh, vivacious, witty and filled with indefinable magic,” said the internationally renowned tenor and conductor Plácido Domingo in an interview for Polish newspaper Viva, “The most amazing thing in Treliński’s work is that it is contemporary and fresh yet at the same time he takes a very delicate approach to the plot.”

Soprano Anna Markarova joined the Mariinsky Opera in 2010, since when she has performed several lead roles from the soprano repertoire to great acclaim, among them Odabella (Attila), the soprano role (a stage version of Verdi’s Requiem), Aida (Aida), Leonora (La forza del destino), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) and Elisabeth de Valois in the recent premiere of Don Carlo.