‘Madama Butterfly’ like never before: Sung in Japanese and English, with ethnically accurate casting
Ah, “Madama Butterfly,” Puccini’s classic operatic tale about a Japanese geisha and an American Navy lieutenant who meet in Nagasaki and fall in love as they sing to each other –– in Italian. It is a ...
Recommended recording: Giacomo Puccini, “Madama Butterfly,” Maria Callas, Nicolair Gedda, Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conducted by Herbert von Karajan. Warner/EMI Though the Inland ...
BOSTON - In their season opener, Boston Lyric Opera is looking at "Madama Butterfly" with modern eyes. The production moves the time and setting of the tragic love story from the original 1904 ...
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