GIACOMO PUCCINI (1858-1924) Madama Butterfly

 

Elmira Veda (Cio Cio San), Annmaria Popescu (Suzuki), Sally Wilson (Kate Pinkerton),  Carlo Barricelli (F.B: Pinkerton), Luca Salsi (Sharpless), Emanuele Giannino (Goro),  Manrico Signorini (Zio Bonzo), Giovanni Guagliardo (Il principe Yamadori / Il commissario imperiale)

Orchestra & Chorus Festival Puccini, Laurence Gilgore

Director: Stefano Vizioli

 

Recorded at the Puccini Festival, Torre del Lago, July 2007

Sung in Italian

Sound Format: PCM 2.0 / Dolby Digital 5.1/ DTS HD 5.1

Picture Format: 16:9

Region Code 0

Subtitles: It, Eng, Ger, Fr, Sp

Booklet Notes: It, Eng, Ger, Fr

 

Madama Butterfly is, with Bohème, the most loved and staged of Puccini’s works.

 

This Blu-ray production was staged at the 2007 Puccini Festival in Italy’s Torre del Lago, Puccini’s home town.

 

Staring as Cio Cio San is the Russian soprano Elmira Veda.

 

This version is only available as Blu-ray.

 

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