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Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Kabaivanska/ Antinori
PLACE: Arena di Verona COMPANY: Chorus and Orchestra of the Arena di Verona LANGUAGE: Italian CONDUCTOR: Maurizio Arena
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Warner Music Vision Puccini: Madama Butterfly -- VeronaArena [1983]
This traditional production of Puccini's enduringly popular opera <I>Madama Butterfly</I> should give much pleasure. It was recorded at the open-air theatre in Verona in 1983 with the local orchestra and chorus under the aptly named Maurizio Arena. The video direction is by an expert in the field, Brian Large, who brings home all the intimate moments of Puccini's drama from an open set that ascends and sprawls across rows of seating. His camera draws the viewer into scenes that the audience cannot witness at their distance--most movingly when Sharpless, the American consul in Nagasaki, gives up his attempt to read Pinkerton's letter to Butterfly saying he has no intention of seeing her again (set to that magical melody which will recur as the humming chorus).<p> It's of little matter that there are no operatic stars in the cast for this ensemble consists of experienced singers who fill the night air with lungs to match Puccini's heaviest demands. The audience, many of them evidently on holiday, greet the show-stopping moments with waves of applause. Their enthusiasm may drown a few bars of orchestral continuity but the orchestra itself is always at the service of the singers on a soundtrack that captures the atmosphere of an open-air performance with astonishing verisimilitude. Butterfly, sung by the statuesque Raina Kabaivanska, may not see Cio-Cio San (to give butterfly her real name) 16 years again and some of her arm movements are overdone but her big number Un bel di and its reprise when she's holding her child by Pinkerton are touchingly conveyed. Neither does she overplay the final scene where she prepares to follow her father's example using the Mikado's dagger to commit suicide--a moment that sends a shiver down the spine in its economy. Nazzareno Antinori as her Pinkerton, with his matinée idol looks and resonant voice, complements her well; their singing of Puccini's spacious love duet at the close of Act One goes down a treat with the crowd. --<I>Adrian Edwards</I>
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PUCCINI:MADAMA BUTTERFLY *2CDS*
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Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Barker/ Thompson
PLACE: Amsterdam Muziektheater COMPANY: Chorus of De Nederlandse Opera LANGUAGE: Italian ORCHESTRA: Nederlands Philharmonic Orchestra CONDUCTOR: Edo de Waart
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Arthaus Musik Puccini: Madama Butterfly -- La ScalaMaazel [DVD]
This 1986 production of <I>Madama Butterfly</I> strives, with its Japanese director and designer, for authenticity in the Japanese setting, yet is somehow entirely Italian at the same time. Yasuko Hayashi's Cio-Cio-San is surprisingly tough, rejecting the arguments of her uncle and the marriage broker with more anger than usual, and her suicide is as much a moral statement of integrity as a sentimental gesture. Accordingly, Dvorsky's sexually magnetic Pinkerton is even less sympathetic--you can see what she sees in him, but he is arrogant and a user, except when he is being lyrical--and Zancanaro's Sharpless, the consul who expedites Pinkerton's betrayal of his wife but develops his own compassion for her, is all the more complex and interesting. The production has real charm as well as authenticity on its side; the staging of the love duet is impressive in its use of shadow and delicate light. Maazel's interpretation has a forceful energy that the recording impressively conveys. --<I>Roz Kaveney</I><p>< B>On the DVD</B>: The DVD has scene selection, and subtitles in German, French and English; the menu adds Spanish.
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Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Cedolins/Giordani
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EMI Gold Madama Butterfly Highlights
Release Date: 2000-08-14, Audio CD, EMI Classics
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Dover Publications Madama Butterfly Vocal Score
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
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Deutsche Grammophon Unitel Puccini Madama Butterfly - complete Placido Domingo Christa Ludwig
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Walhall Eternity Series Puccini Madama Butterfly Elisabeth Lindermeier Richard Holm
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Walhall Eternity Series Puccini Madama Butterfly Elfride Trotschel Karl Friedrich
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Gala Puccini Madama Butterfly - complete Elisabeth Shumskaya Ivan Kozlovsky
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Naxos Historical Puccini Madama Butterfly - complete Renata Tebaldi Giuseppe Campora
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EMI Puccini Madama Butterfly - highlights Maria Callas
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EMI Great Recordings Puccini Madama Butterfly - complete Renata Scotto Carlo Bergonzi
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Decca Puccini Madama Butterfly - highlights Luciano Pavarotti Mirella Freni
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