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CHAN 3070 - Puccini: Madam Butterfly


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CD available From: 15 October 2001

Opera - Madam Butterfly

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Madam Butterfly

137:10

Opera in two acts

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after the book by John Luther Long and the play by David Belasco

English version based on that of R.H. Elkin

COMPACT DISC ONE

Act I

1

Introduction

1:05

2

'So the walls and the ceiling . . .'

2:06

Pinkerton, Goro

3

'I think Your Honour's smiling'

2:17

Suzuki, Pinkerton, Goro

4

'It can't be much further now!'

1:20

Sharpless, Goro, Pinkerton

5

'The whole world over'

2:22

6

'Fate can't crush him'

1:13

Pinkerton, Sharpless

7

'Is the bride very pretty?'

1:06

Sharpless, Goro, Pinkerton

8

'True love or fancy'

3:23

Pinkerton, Sharpless

9

'See them! They're climbing the summit of the hill!'

3:30

Goro, Butterfly's Girl Friends, Butterfly, Sharpless

10

'We are honoured'

3:34

Butterfly, Girl Friends, Pinkerton, Sharpless, Goro

11

'The Imperial Commissioner'

1:48

Goro, Pinkerton, Relations and Friends, Butterfly, Yakuside

12

'Oh, indeed, my friend, you're lucky!'

1:16

Sharpless, Butterfly

13

'Come, my beloved'

3:25

Pinkerton, Butterfly, Goro

14

'My fate I have to follow'

1:17

Butterfly

15

'Silence! Silence!'

1:52

Goro, Commissioner, Girl Friends, Butterfly

16

'Congratulations'

4:33

Commissioner, Pinkerton, Sharless, Registrar, Relatives, the Bonze, Goro

17

'Dearest, my dearest, weep no more'

2:06

Pinkerton, Butterfly, Suzuki

18

'Evening is falling . . .'

3:31

Pinkerton, Butterfly, Suzuki

19

'Child, from whose eyes the witchery is shining'

3:52

Pinkerton, Butterfly

20

'Ah, love me a little'

7:28

Butterfly, Pinkerton

Act II

Part 1

21

'Izaghi Izanami'

6:47

Suzuki, Butterfly

22

'One fine day'

4:35

Butterfly

64:37

COMPACT DISC TWO

1

'Come, let's enter'

4:22

Goro, Sharpless, Butterfly

2

'Yamadori, and has your unrequitted love not yet released you?'

4:53

Butterfly, Yamadori, Sharpless, Goro

3

'Now, at last!'

3:01

Sharpless, Butterfly

4

'Just two things I could do'

2:07

5

'This child! This child, then!'

3:24

Butterfly, Sharpless

6

'Do you know, my darling'

3:24

Butterfly

7

'I must be going'

1:43

Sharpless, Butterfly, Suzuki

8

'Ah! Ah!'

1:52

Goro, Suzuki, Butterfly

9

'Look, it's a man-of-war!'

2:33

Suzuki, Butterfly

10

Flower duet: 'Shake the cherry tree'

9:55

Butterfly, Suzuki

11

Humming Chorus

2:55

Act II

Part 2

12

Prelude

4:29

13

Daybreak over Nagasaki

2:52

14

'It's morning'

2:01

Suzuki, Butterfly

15

'Who is it? . . .'

2:42

Suzuki, Pinkerton, Sharples

16

'I know for such misfortune there is no consolation'

3:59

Sharpless, Suzuki, Pinkerton

17

'Farewell, oh happy home!'

1:51

Pinkerton, Sharpless

18

'Then will you tell her?'

1:19

Kate, Suzuki

19

'Suzuki, where are you?'

1:47

20

'You, Suzuki, you're always so faithful'

1:14

Butterfly, Suzuki

21

'Viper! I want you to answer'

3:40

Butterfly, Suzuki, Sharpless, Kate

22

'Your little fluttering heart is beating'

2:55

Suzuki, Butterfly

23

'Death with honour is better than life with dishonour'

5:04

Butterfly

72:33

Cheryl Barker soprano - Cio-Cio-San (Madam Butterfly)

Jean Rigby mezzo-soprano - Suzuki

Paul Charles Clarke tenor - B.F. Pinkerton

Gregory Yurisich baritone - Sharpless

Stuart Kale tenor - Goro

D'Arcy Bleiker baritone - Prince Yamadori

Clive Bayley bass - The Bonze

Simon Birchall bass - Yakuside

Roland Wood bass - The Imperial Commissioner

Frances Brett bass - The Official Registrar

Anne Sheridan Jinks soprano - Cio-Cio-San's mother

Paula Bott soprano - The Aunt

Ann Taylor mezzo-soprano - Kate Pinkerton

Cio-Cio-San's relations and friends and servants

Geoffrey Mitchell Choir

Philharmonia Orchestra

Yves Abel

Recorded in:

Blackheath Halls, London

13-17 December 2000

Producer(s)

Brian Couzens

Sound Engineer(s)

Ralph Couzens

Christopher Brooke (Assistant)

Format: Digital CD 16Bit 44.1Khz
Originally recorded in: 24Bit 96Khz

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