MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Complete Opera recorded in 1959)
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Complete Opera recorded in 1959)
Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Fiorenza Cossotto, Enzo Sordello / Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin
[ Decca / 2 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Sunday 20 September 2009
Madama Butterfly (Cio-cio-san) has renounced her family and traditions to marry an American officer, Pinkerton. He returns to America and during his absence Butterfly gives birth to his child. Three years pass before he returns… with an American wife. Butterfly gives the child an American flag to play with as she commits suicide.
Madama Butterfly was a massive failure when it was first performed at La Scala in Milan in February 1904 and Puccini continued to revise it until he arrived at the definitive version which was given in Paris in December 1906; today the opera is one of the most popular and regularly performed of all Italian operas.
With full libretto and translations
"There are few accounts of the role that are more securely, more gloriously sung, and with a voice that seems without a flaw throughout its register. So many more convincingly childlike Butterflys simply have no lower notes to speak of, or are incapable of the cruelly demanding outburst of "Tu, tu, piccolo lddio", that it is splendid to hear in the role a voice that you know will not be found wanting at any point. And few Butterflys have been more ardently and sympathetically partnered than by Bergonzi, here in his finest voice: the love duet is superbly done." (Gramophone)
NOTE: Outer cardboard box has some very minor damage
