Opera (tragedia giapponese) in 3 acts
Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica [Based: David Belasco-John Luther Long: Madama Butterfly]
First performance: 17 February 1904, Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Recorded: 2009, Arena Sferisterio, Macerata, Italy
Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly) - Raffaella Angeletti
F.B. Pinkerton - Massimiliano Pisapia
Suzuki - Annunziata Vestri
Sharpless - Claudio Sgura
Goro - Thomas Morris
Il Bonzo - Enrico Iori
Kate Pinkerton - Nino Batatunashvili
Il principe Yamadori - Enrico Cossutta
Pier Luigi Pizzi, stage director, set and costume designer
The story of a young Nagasaki geisha who, abandoned by her American lover after giving birth to their son, ultimately kills herself is one of the most popular operas today.
First Madama Butterfly on Blu-ray!
This outstandingly authentic and elegant performance took place in the magnificent open-air neo-classical Arena Sferisterio built in the 1820s. The superior cast is headed by Raffaella Angeletti in the title role, "certainly one of the best Butterflies of our time" (ForumOpera.com), who has performed this role in many Italian theatres, as well as in Madrid and at the Vienna Staatsoper. As Pinkerton, Massimo Pisapia is "brilliant, bold and trim" (L'Opinione) and Annunziata Vestri's Suzuki "outstanding" (Rinascita). |
[ NTSC ] (1080p)