Madama Butterfly - 'Un bel dí vedremo' (Puccini, Ermonela Jaho, The Royal Opera)

Ermonela Jaho as Cio-Cio San (with Elizabeth DeShong as Suzuki) performs Un bel dí vedremo in Madama Butterfly. Find out more at www.roh.org.uk/
Giacomo Puccini was entranced by David Belasco’s play Madame Butterfly (based on a popular short story by John Luther Long) when he saw it in London in 1900. He collaborated with librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (with whom he had created La bohème and Tosca) to adapt Cio-Cio-San’s (Butterfly’s) tragic tale for the operatic stage. Although the premiere at La Scala, Milan, in 1904 was poorly received, that same year Puccini revised and restaged the opera for performances in Brescia, to great acclaim. Madama Butterfly quickly became a hugely popular opera with performers and audiences alike, and remains one of Puccini’s best-loved works.
Puccini drew on Japanese folk melodies for the score, one of his most evocative and atmospheric. In Act I, Cio-Cio-San expresses her radiant happiness in ‘Ancora un passo’, and the lovers rapturously declare their love for each other in the passionate duet ‘Viene la sera… vogliatemi bene’. In Act II, set three years later, the dominant mood is one of yearning; in her Act II aria ‘Un bel dì vedremo’ Cio-Cio-San longs for the ‘fine day’ when her husband will return to her.

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[@luciacostis-h6c]

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[@Purdé2749]

So now I understand why people watch opera singers......oh...her expressions made me feel what she feels

[@elijahsackville-glucksburg]

you just understand it now? how old are you?

[@Purdé2749]

@@elijahsackville-glucksburg what is the connection?

[@edwinlu123]

lolol what she feels? we feel money and benefits

[@lindadillon3061]

I agree. Since covid when I started watching opera on KZbin I am now hooked

[@PatrickGeagan]

To me it's not so much the words, but the emotions. They can tug at one's heart strings. If one has a partner who enjoys opera also the experience can be life changing. I am a neophyte, but have been captured by it.❤

[@AlanDraven]

Brava! No matter how many times I hear "Un bel di vedremo", if it's well performed, it always chokes me up. Definitely my favorite aria.

[@Muchamuchacha]

Right? I hear the audio but watching it perform gives me chills. I even teared up in one of the performance I watched.

[@shibiaoyuan3958]

couldn't agree more

[@vivienneclarke2421]

Same here

[@patriziapiva3201]

Sì, è un capolavoro assoluto.

[@philippehervedupenhoat9098]

Which aria do I prefer ? An impossible answer, similar to "which one of my child do I prefer". My answer is, arias or operas that I love, are all my favorite during the period of time I listen to one of them. After it is like the departure of a loved one...except that I can revive them and they come back as a favorite.

[@googlefan8990]

Best performance of this aria ever!!!! She is my favorite Madame Butterfly - unbelievable stage presence!!! I am in tears already - which I should be because the story is touching!

[@dragonfly6908]

This is one of the best performances I have ever heard. The emotion is so brilliant. Absolutely beautiful.

[@nikanj]

A masterful performance. The impossibly soft opening was especially breath-taking.

[@markdrinkwater1508]

I saw Jahos Butterfly at Covent Garden, this very performance, in 2017, my best evening in an Opera House to date, she pours everything into it and her voice is beautiful, a truly moving spectacle.

[@rikki4376]

My Dad loved this opera so much. Playing it for him in heaven. Hope you like it Dad😢❤

[@sharonanderson2073]

I believe your dad bood❤

[@sharonanderson2073]

No sorry would ❤

[@Lajs657]

Ermonela Jaho is a fantastic soprano and a very beautiful lady. Fantastic work.

[@Alexthezieg]

Suzuki's makeup is so snatched like damn girl stab me with those eyebrows 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@buenvendor]

It is performed in a big opera house so has to be made visible somehow for the whole audience.

[@tonylefever8070]

OK !!!

[@russtyshacklefordjr.4429]

Fiercccce💣

[@judithmiller7021]

I watched it on Sky Arts tv in bed and lay there sobbing. It was truly wonderful opera and I wish I had been at the ROH to see her live, blew me away.

[@neilwilliams7479]

I saw this performance and it took me back to a Saturday afternoon in June 25 yrs ago in Glover garden in Nagasaki and hearing this sung by the winner of the aria competition. It was a moving and emotional experience and one day to hopefully be repeated .

[@gentrynavat9744]

Oh. My. God. She performed this with all her heart and soul, that I finally understood what Pucciini tried to convey. Unbelievably beautiful!

[@GirlWow007]

Ermonela broke my heart with this, she’s magic.

[@gentrynavat9744]

❤❤❤❤

[@renatomartino7523]

Trasmette una grandissina emozione. Superlativa. Una delle più grandi cantanti del nostro tempo

[@davidrichie9570]

Seeing Jaho live in this role is shattering!

[@michaeljeran4941]

Ein Superstar wird sie werden! Einfach wunderbar. Thank you!

[@paolacerchi3267]

E' paradisiaca con quella voce che emoziona toccando note altissime brava brava brava grazie per emozionarmi cosi' tanto.

[@zeldagamefan]

And just like that I'm sobbing .. every single time I hear this song can't stop crying

[@laurenricard7088]

Why does this piece always put me to tears?

[@lizpurrfect306]

Lauren Ricard listen to the version of Maria Callas one time

[@claudiachasman4688]

ME, TOO💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@eianfullerton1812]

It's a sad song. About a widow waiting for her beloved soldier to finally come home to her.

[@jeanpalumbo3411]

So emotional, you could feel the❤ pain, and that's where the tears😢 come from, even if you don't understand a word❤

[@Spyderredtoo]

I can never hear it without tears.

[@Neptuno0691]

Wow, the end was flawless!

[@isabelmosteiromartinez477]

La mejor soprano de la actualidad pq es, además de excelente cantante, magnífica actriz, con una gestualidad extraordinaria, expresando el sentimiento de una forma... Sin palabras. La, soprano más completa, te llega directa al alma y al corazón.... 😭😭👍👍👍

[@mikeshirley3548]

She is superlative in this role, what an incredible talent.

[@gbritaney]

Wonderful. I saw this opera in NYC years ago. Beautiful opera.

[@danialashraf99]

I 've been waiting this so long. I would like to see Madama Butterfly Entrance. Thank you Ermonela Jaho & Antonio Pappano!!!

[@JohnDoe-qq4vt]

Don't hold back, let it out honey! She is tremendous! And a true pleasure to watch and listen to.

[@deborist]

I teach preschool and I show this to my two year olds everyday! You should see their faces and you can hear a pin drop from the moment I start it !

[@vivienneclarke2421]

I woke up with this stuck in my head today......what a Beautiful way to start my day~!🦋

[@makecocgreatagain-g2c]

Just magical! Her feelings come alive once again

[@valentinalanarogutierrez8011]

Wow. I’ve just came across this magnificent artist. My God, it made me cry. Amazing 🤩 ❤️❤️❤️❤️ new fan here 😘😘😘

[@osoio]

Obrigado, Ermonela. E equipe da Royal Opera House. Abraços do Brasil!

[@FredoBatista-fn3vv]

💚💛 Ciao de Portugal. 💖 Ermonela 🌟 💙 Puccini Butterfly 🦋

[@neilwilliams7479]

When I saw this performance in ROH in June 2022 it took me back to 1994 standing Glover Garden Nagasaki listening to this aria looking out over the bay and seeing bots come into port. The ability of music to transport you back in time to and a place.

[@lingshanp]

Heartbreaking yet beautiful 💔

[@euniceamaral1346]

I've seen Madam butterfly tree times in London and I cryed all of times ❤

[@MariaMarchez-Stork]

An opera about a Japanese lady falling in love with an American IN ITALIAN! What talent! Especially this interpretation!!!

[@sharonanderson2073]

I totally agree very sad❤

[@QueenMaeve2024]

Wasn't she Vietnamese(the character in the opera)?

[@MariaMarchez-Stork]

@QueenMaeve2024 no

[@tordkarl]

@@QueenMaeve2024No, that’s Miss Saigon. An American musical built on the same story.

[@AngelaMyers-rs4lx]

amazing beyond words, thank you. My favourite opera and performance xx

[@Cinetyk]

Wow, I'm speechless after this. This was sublime. Cheers.

[@kelmendd2035]

You make us proud Ermonela!

[@giannidessi2955]

Who ever sings this Area it brings tears to my eyes such words of love, expectation, and fear and the high pitches are something else Brilliant

[@duakafe299]

She is the best of our generation!!! I feel her emotions her pain her love!

[@vjollcashkalla783]

Çfarë muzike, çfarë zëri, çfarë interpretimi!! Ermonelën e konkuron vetëm Ermonela🎉

[@fredojoaquim4764]

Loved it💖. This is a marvellous Aria, very difficult colaratura soprano to project🌄. Sung so well from the soul.🌹 Marvelous soprano.🌟

[@eternal3321]

It’s so much sadder when you realise what’s she’s actually saying and what happens in the story.

[@joannagrzadziel9586]

I adore her, she's perfect in this role.

[@NormaSandoval-on7zm]

Mi opera preferida, Argentina

[@footballvideo1809]

Albania is proud of you!

[@Nigel-fy5jg]

Just superb.

[@mariaeugeniarimolo3499]

Hermosa voz, gracias

[@isabelmosteiromartinez477]

Marvelous, marvelous, she is Butterfly, she is only one. I love ❤️🦋 Ermonela "the best"

[@andreelouncke2274]

déjà très belle voix mais en plus magnifique comédienne ,ce qui est formidable pour ce rôle Grand merci à vous

[@manawanuitini7676]

One of my fave opera 👍🏽ROH thank you xo

[@davidgoldsmithmd]

Inured to "Madama Butterfly's" pathos after myriad Met viewings, I found my carefully constructed emotional bulwark inexplicably breached by Ermonela Jaho's tour de force. Her Cio-Cio-San, a sublime fusion of vocal virtuosity and nuanced characterization, catalyzed an unexpected catharsis, leaving me-a jaded aficionado-awash in tears, my face a canvas of renewed artistic devastation. Brava Ermonela come again to the Met.

[@chrissyp9003]

This is the classiest comment I have ever seen on KZbin.

[@chrissyp9003]

As someone who grew up in Bayonne NJ, moved to Florida at age 17, and now lives in Los Angeles at 37, I long for the NY I never got to experience. I long to go to the MET, and to walk the streets in Manhattan in winter with all the Christmas decorations up. LA is wonderful but it isnt NYC.

[@peterps8207]

Watching this just makes me want to write a fanfic where she ended up happy

[@MistaBombasticG]

3:26, perfect move for the end!

[@mikefisher9992]

A beautiful aria beautifully sung

[@gildabaptista8796]

The very best interpretarion ever

[@MeiZu0606]

just... beautiful to tears 😭👏👏👏👏 💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐

[@bendonovan9244]

😢 So beautiful.

[@AficionPorLaMusica]

Brava!!!!!!!! Greetings from PERÚ

[@andreij.2645]

So much talent and grace in a single person it seems unfair ...but it really isn't as she started the singing lessons at the age of 6. We're all blessed to have her in this world....our new Callas!

[@pelegribernial4741]

Tuve la gran suerte de estar en ésta representación, fue realmente sublime toda la obra.Pelegrí Bernial Mollet del Vallès ( Barcelona )

[@EwrimBilgen]

I was stabbed in the heart once again with this magnificent performance

[@AngelaMyers-rs4lx]

so sad and so beautiful xxxx

[@susannadellaianna9458]

Grandissima ❤

[@massimoiapichino6257]

Molto brava e veramente ricco il supporto orchestrale

[@daffo595]

I wish I could've watched this performance!!

[@joep9922]

You can buy the dvd

[@lauramenzies9042]

You can its at the royal opera house!

[@TanteColeya]

Saw MB at the Met in NYC in April. Breathtaking

[@Ulysses88047]

Diese Arie bringt mich immer zum Weinen....

[@RosemaryDoyle-l1p]

Oh butterfly you break my heart ❤

[@isabelmosteiromartinez477]

La vi en directo el día de su estreno en cinema. Ermonela, pappano, todos MARAVILLOSOS. QUÉ EMOCIONANTE. Pobre, pobre Butterfly. Y cuanto RAZISMO transmite la obra. Es muy realista, con un RAZISMO casi insoportable por monentos.... Qué voz, qué manera de interpretar. Menos mal que al menos tenemos las retransmisión en directo de la Royal Ópera House. Thanks a lot

[@makecocgreatagain-g2c]

Just Amazing!

[@brianc4594]

Amazing!

[@joseluizengelke5128]

Ermonela jaho! Magnificent. What a Voice and performance!

[@antoniogualeni4765]

Questo pezzo..apro la porta.. nell'altra stanza suona comfortably numb

[@ANGELICACRECIRS]

Inominável! Bravíssimo!

[@diannajg2613]

Gorgeous!

[@laurent22000]

Magnifique !

[@maryannejovic6389]

Amazing singer

[@lukebannister828]

wow! What a voice

[@banyera]

Beautiful !!!

[@Olgaalwina]

Jüngst in Hamburg, Ermonela , mio Dio, fantastic Butterfly and ever, ever Abraccio !!!

[@bassethound1]

Her voice is stunning. And her movement is all Kate Bush! ❤️

[@russtyshacklefordjr.4429]

You mean like, hyper expressive? There is something to that I think...

[@atreuco1]

acabo de escucharla en La Travita (Teatro Colón) 2017 terminás llorando, aplaudiendo golpeando el escritorio, esa voz y que actríz... (I just heard in La Traviata (Teatro Colón) 2017 you end up crying, clapping, hitting the desk, that voice, and what an actress ...)

[@Matt-nl2dn]

Yo la vi en el Colón, qué hermoso recuerdo, gracias!

[@yuekaptor]

Bellísimo!!!

[@julianasterjo8832]

With tears in my eyes 👏👏👏👏♥️♥️♥️

[@TheProms]

Priceless.

[@elsitarodriguez2479]

Fenomenal k torrente de voz amazing for u Ermonela brabo brabisimo

[@Rhiorrha]

Incorporating this song's opening into Sarah Brightman's "It's a Beautiful Day" was genius.

[@danielmark4869]

'Song' isn't the term used in opera. This is what's called an aria. In opera you have arias, duets, trios, quartets, quintets etc... choruses and recitative that make up all the different parts of the work. Opera is actually live theatre set entirely to music to intensify the emotions experienced by the audience as they watch the stage play unfold. It's an art form created by the Italians, who were inspired by the histories they read of how the ancient Greeks used to incorporate music into their stage plays for dramatic effect, so a whole terminology grew out of opera that is mostly in Italian because that's where opera was born. It's confusing at first because we're usually used to thinking of music in terms of songs. There's nothing wrong with songs but music isn't limited to songs.

[@canmiran]

Oh my..Verdi may be the brains of opera..but Puccini…the heart!

[@ginasandham6254]

Beautiful. Heartbreaking. Never fails to move me. Jahos is Devine, I prefer to Calais

[@cerabellamoanism6845]

💔💔💔💔💔Brings me to tears .....Every time . 🌹👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@sovaine]

Exquisite.... simple as that❤

[@MariMorti]

And everytime I hear this aria, my heart bleeds

[@aneashumm203]

This made me cry

[@scharnhorstkaisarbeethoven]

Puccini was really a marvel

[@carlosdalejandro]

BRAVA !

[@justjay926]

👏👏💜Brava.

[@casteldeangamber9703]

Un bel dì, vedremo Levarsi un fil di fumo Sull'estremo confin del mare E poi la nave appare Poi la nave bianca Entra nel porto Romba il suo saluto Vedi? È venuto! Io non gli scendo incontro. Io no Mi metto là sul ciglio del colle E aspetto E aspetto gran tempo E non mi pesa La lunga attesa E uscito dalla folla cittadina Un uomo, un picciol punto S'avvia per la collina Chi sarà? Chi sarà? E come sarà giunto Che dirà? Che dirà? Chiamerà "Butterfly" dalla lontana Io senza dar risposta Me ne starò nascosta Un po' per celia E un po' per non morire Al primo incontro; Ed egli alquanto in pena Chiamerà, chiamerà: "Piccina mogliettina Olezzo di verbena" I nomi che mi dava al suo venire Tutto questo avverrà Te lo prometto Tienti la tua paura Io con sicura fede l'aspetto

[@luizdantas3218]

love her