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Madama Butterfly : opera in two acts

Title: Madama Butterfly : radio broadcast, 2009-03-07 [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on the play by David Belasco.
Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.
Publication: [New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2009.

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Description

3 sound discs : digital, stereo.; 4 3/4 in.

Series Statement

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 7, 2009

Uniform Title

Madama Butterfly
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)
Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts.
Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 7, 2009.

Alternative Title

Madama Butterfly

Subject

Operas

Genre/Form

Live sound recordings.

Note

Opera in 2 acts.
Compact discs.
House program on file in Music Division.

Indexed In (note)

Opera news

Performer (note)

Patricia Racette (Cio-Cio-San) ; Maria Zifchak (Suzuki) ; Marcello Giordani (B.F. Pinkerton) ; Dwayne Croft (Sharpless) ; Greg Fedderly (Goro) ; Keith Miller (Imperial Commissary) ; Christian Jeong (The registrar) ; Dean Peterson (The uncle-priest) ; David Won (Yamadori) ; Edyta Kulczak (Kate Pinkerton) ; Blind Summit Puppetry (Cio-Cio-San's child) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; Patrick Summers, conductor ; Margaret Juntwait, broadcast announcer.

Event (note)

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 7, 2009.

Source (note)

Metropolitan Opera;

Language (note)

Sung in Italian.

Contents

CD 1. Introduction and synopsis of act 1 with commentary (Margaret Juntwait and Ira Siff) ; Act 1 ; Met Memory (Mary Jo Heath interviews John Del Carlo about singing the role of Dr. Bartolo in Rossini's Barber of Seville) ; Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Natalie Dessay, host, with William Berger, Susan Ashbaker, Michelle Krisel, and Neal Goren) [beginning] -- CD 2. Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz [conclusion] ; Met Memory (Mary Jo Heath interviews Met listener, Mark Nicholson, who reminisces about a 1969 Met broadcast of Die Walküre) ; synopsis of act 2, part 1 and commentary (Juntwait and Siff) ; Act 2, part 1 ; Met Cameo (Naomi Lewin interviews Kim Josephson) ; Mary Jo Heath speaks with Dwayne Croft and Maria Zifchak about working with Anthony Minghella ; Met at 125 feature (Mary Jo Heath discusses Puccini's two visits to the Met (in 1907 and 1910) [beginning] -- CD 3. Met at 125 feature [conclusion] ; Met Memory (Naomi Lewin interviews opera fan Lloyd Burlingame) ; synopsis of act 2, part 2, and commentary (Juntwait and Siff) ; Renée Fleming interviews Patricia Racette ; Act 2, part 2 ; closing remarks (Juntwait and Siff).

Call Number

*LDC 47789

OCLC

599850858

Author

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Title

Madama Butterfly : radio broadcast, 2009-03-07 [sound recording] : opera in two acts / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on the play by David Belasco.

Imprint

[New York, NY] : Metropolitan Opera, c2009.

Series

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts

Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 7, 2009

Metropolitan Opera Saturday matinée broadcasts.

Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network ; [broadcast of] Mar. 7, 2009.

Cast

Patricia Racette (Cio-Cio-San) ; Maria Zifchak (Suzuki) ; Marcello Giordani (B.F. Pinkerton) ; Dwayne Croft (Sharpless) ; Greg Fedderly (Goro) ; Keith Miller (Imperial Commissary) ; Christian Jeong (The registrar) ; Dean Peterson (The uncle-priest) ; David Won (Yamadori) ; Edyta Kulczak (Kate Pinkerton) ; Blind Summit Puppetry (Cio-Cio-San's child) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; Patrick Summers, conductor ; Margaret Juntwait, broadcast announcer.

Indexed In:

Opera news, v. 73, no. 9 (Mar. 2009).

Event

Broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, Mar. 7, 2009.

Language

Sung in Italian.

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Added Author

Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919. Librettist

Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906. Librettist

Juntwait, Margaret. Commentator

Siff, Ira. Commentator

Racette, Patricia, 1967- Performer. Interviewee

Zifchak, Maria. Performer. Interviewee

Giordani, Marcello. Performer

Croft, Dwayne. Performer. Interviewee

Fedderly, Greg, 1961- Performer

Miller, Keith (Bass-baritone) Performer

Jeong, Christian. Performer

Peterson, Dean. Performer

Won, David. Performer

Kulczak, Edyta. Performer

Summers, Patrick. Conductor

Del Carlo, John. Interviewee

Heath, Mary Joanne Renner, 1954- Interviewer

Dessay, Natalie, 1965- Host

Berger, William, 1961- Commentator

Ashbaker, Susan. Commentator

Krisel, Michelle. Commentator

Goren, Neal. Commentator

Nicholson, Mark. Interviewee

Josephson, Kim. Interviewee

Lewin, Naomi. Interviewer

Burlingame, Lloyd. Interviewee

Fleming, Renée. Interviewer

Belasco, David, 1853-1931. Madame Butterfly.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Performer

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) Donor NN-RHA

Added Title

Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera Quiz (Radio program)

Metropolitan Opera Broadcast (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*LDC 47789

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