Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) - Madama Butterfly Opera . Act 1 *Click to activate the English subtitles for the synopsis* (00:00-03:31) 00:00 E soffitto .. E Pareti 02:14 Questa è la cameriera 04:10 Che Guardi .. Se Non Giunge Ancor La Sposa 06:51 Dovunque al mondo 10:58 Quale smania vi prende 14:40 Ecco! Son Giunte Al Sommo Del Pendio 18:47 Gran ventura 22:35 L’imperial commissario 22:57 Vieni, amor mio 28:44 Leri son salita tutta sola 30:31 Tutti Zitti! .. E Concesso Al Nominato 33:25 Ed eccoci in famiglia 37:04 Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia 39:12 Viene La Sera 41:03 Quest'Obi Pomposa 43:00 Bimba Dagli Occhi Pieni Di Malia 46:46 Vogliatemi Bene, Un Bene Piccolino 49:51 Vini, Vieni .. Via Dall'Anima In Pena Act 2 *Click to activate the English subtitles for the synopsis* (54:45-57:10) 54:45 E inzaghi ed izanami 57:21 Suzuki .. E Lungi La Miseria 1:01:52 Un bel di vedremo 1:06:28 C’è entrate 1:10:14 Ah Sì. Goro, Appena B. F. Pinkerton Fu In Mare 1:12:56 Si Sa Che Aprir La Porta 1:16:00 Ora a noi 1:19:00 Qui Troncarla Conviene 1:21:59 E questo ? E questo ? 1:24:15 Che tua madre dovrà 1:27:13 Lo scendo al piano 1:28:50 Vespra ! Rospo maledetto 1:30:35 Una nave da guerra 1:33:01 Scuoti quella fronda di ciliegio 1:38:07 Or vienmi ad adornar 1:43:43 Coro a bocca chiusa (Humming Chorus) 1:47:12 Introduzione 1:55:00 Già il sole 1:57:16 Chi Sia .. Zitta! Zitta! 1:59:50 Lo so che alle sue pene 2:03:42 Addio, fiorito asil 2:05:38 Galileo dirai ? 2:08:41 Tu, Suzuki, Che Sei Tanto Buona 2:13:17 Come una mosca prigioniera 2:16:23 Con onor muore Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San) : Renata Scotto Suzuki : Anna di Stasio Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton : Carlo Bergonzi Kate Pinkerton : Silvana Padoan Sharpless : Rolando Panerai Goro : Piero de Palma Il Principe Yamadori : Giuseppe Morresi Il Bonzo : Paolo Montarsolo Il Commissario Imperiale : Mario Rinaudo Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Conductor : Sir John Barbirolli Recorded in 1966, at Roma New mastering in 2021 by AB for CMRR Find CMRR's recordings on *Spotify* : spoti.fi/3016eVr The present recording was made in the Rome Opera House in August 1966. Astonishingly, it was the 67-year-old Sir John Barbirolli's first major opera recording. Both his father and grandfather had been members of the orchestra at La Scala, Milan, and Barbirolli himself had begun his conducting career in opera (Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Verdi's Aida, and Madama Butterfly on tour with the British National Opera Company in 1926). "What Mr Barbirolli will do with other masters remains to be proved," wrote Samuel Langford, grandest of contemporary critics, in the Manchester Guardian. "In Puccini at least he is an absolute master. " Barbirolli went on to conduct memorable performances of Madama Butterfly at Covent Garden, but orchestral appointments in New York and with the Hallé in Manchester turned his career away from the theatre. For Barbirolli, the 1966 Butterfly was thus a double homecoming: to opera and to Italy. The Rome players, who weeks earlier during a recording of L'elisir d'amore had played as badly as it is possible to play and still get away with it, responded with respect and affection to Barbirolli's heady mix of no-nonsense discipline, Italianate passion, and a sharp-eyed reading of Puccini's score. Their manager observed: "What impressed me was the beauty of the sound when the orchestra was playing and the silence when it was not!" Barbirolli was given a superb cast: Renata Scotto, the finest Butterfly of her generation, the unfailingly stylish Carlo Bergonzi, whose unavailability had caused Barbirolli to turn down an earlier offer to record Aida, and Rolando Panerai in the crucial role of Sharpless, the only person in the drama who truly understands both Butterfly and Pinkerton. A late replacement for Peter Glossop, Panerai was paid a hefty flat fee for his part in the recording, and rightly so. In terms of musical characterisation, there is none finer on record. Scotto was 19 when she sang her first Butterfly, in Savona in 1953. It was a role she took to instinctively, as the distinguished pre-war soprano Mafalda Favero instantly recognised. Favero taught Scotto how to sing dramatic lines without forcing the voice, but she also issued a warning quarried from personal experience: "Be careful. The role is a killer. Remember that you have to know your strength and that you can't waste any of it because you will need it all to say farewell to your life and your child in the last act." Further pointers came from Maria Callas, who recorded the role for EMI with Karajan in 1955: an intimate and revealing portrait specifically created for the microphone. Where Callas and Karajan conjured forth a Butterfly who links Wagner's Isolde to Debussy's Mélisande, Scotto was determined to create a real theatre reading, which would combine intimacy and power. As Scotto argues in her autobiography, More than a Diva (New York, 1984), Butterfly is a woman not a child. By the age of 15, she has already experienced poverty, shame, the death of her father and such sexual experience as the role of a geisha demanded. Critics seeking a bel canto Butterfly have occasionally expressed reservations about Scotto. Writing in the Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera (London, 1993), London Green countered: Hers is a splendid voice for Butterfly: lyric, full, mobile and forward, with an inimitable flavour and an ability to penetrate the orchestra by means of colour and focus. The lower voice is uniquely shadowed without being dark, the very top is a little wiry, and it all retains a distinctive quality which suggests the Oriental. The genius of the reading lies in the detailing. At the heart of the performance is the letter-reading scene and Butterfly's revelation that she has a son by Pinkerton. At first, Scotto is the excitable child, but the remark in Pinkerton's letter "perhaps Butterfly does not remember me" draws from her a response which in Scotto's enunciation marries barely suppressed amusement with anger, pain and incredulity. When Sharpless advises her to accept Yamadori's offer of marriage, her uttering of the word "Voi?"("You?") is alone worth the price of the recording. Scotto takes the death scene to new heights, holding the ritual and individual elements in an ideal balance, The phrase "muore Butterfly", in which she tells her child that she is about to die, is marked to be sung "with a weeping voice" but, as Scotto has pointed out, no singer can actually afford to weep. Her shaping and timing of the phrase (incomparably supported by Barbirolli) is deeply touching, but it is almost immediately surpassed by her even more affecting enunciation of what is arguably the most heart-rending phrase in the entire opera: "Il materno abbandono". When Barbirolli returned to London after the sessions (finished with a minute to spare after a violent thunderstorm delayed the recording of the "Flower Duet"), he told an interviewer: "My appetite for opera has been re-whetted". Listen to the orchestral aftermath of the moment when Butterfly produces the child in the scene with Sharpless and you will hear the evidence. This is conducting "from the heart to the heart", fierce yet noble, spontaneous-seeming yet superbly judged. That, his rubato-laden but inch-perfect accompaniment of Scotto's uniquely detailed performance of the title role, helps make this Butterfly the unforgettable recording it undoubtedly is. Giacomo Puccini & Vincenzo Bellini PLAYLIST (reference recordings) : kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5yThGuCfMZniqc
@johnamaral1786 Жыл бұрын
Love a good time stamp and yours is exceptional. I, also, appreciate that the associated commentary is in English. All very helpful to me. /:-)
@TangSooTerp Жыл бұрын
Yes, thank you for the wonderful information about this recording. It adds to an already amazing experience. Scotto will always be my favorite Butterfly!
@Siraslan-b5v7 ай бұрын
Un bel di vedremo
@saranevano44856 ай бұрын
❤❤❤
@classicalmusicreference3 жыл бұрын
The present recording was made in the Rome Opera House in August 1966. Astonishingly, it was the 67-year-old Sir John Barbirolli's first major opera recording. Both his father and grandfather had been members of the orchestra at La Scala, Milan, and Barbirolli himself had begun his conducting career in opera (Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Verdi's Aida, and Madama Butterfly on tour with the British National Opera Company in 1926). "What Mr Barbirolli will do with other masters remains to be proved," wrote Samuel Langford, grandest of contemporary critics, in the Manchester Guardian. "In Puccini at least he is an absolute master. " Barbirolli went on to conduct memorable performances of Madama Butterfly at Covent Garden, but orchestral appointments in New York and with the Hallé in Manchester turned his career away from the theatre. For Barbirolli, the 1966 Butterfly was thus a double homecoming: to opera and to Italy. The Rome players, who weeks earlier during a recording of L'elisir d'amore had played as badly as it is possible to play and still get away with it, responded with respect and affection to Barbirolli's heady mix of no-nonsense discipline, Italianate passion, and a sharp-eyed reading of Puccini's score. Their manager observed: "What impressed me was the beauty of the sound when the orchestra was playing and the silence when it was not!" Barbirolli was given a superb cast: Renata Scotto, the finest Butterfly of her generation, the unfailingly stylish Carlo Bergonzi, whose unavailability had caused Barbirolli to turn down an earlier offer to record Aida, and Rolando Panerai in the crucial role of Sharpless, the only person in the drama who truly understands both Butterfly and Pinkerton. A late replacement for Peter Glossop, Panerai was paid a hefty flat fee for his part in the recording, and rightly so. In terms of musical characterisation, there is none finer on record. Scotto was 19 when she sang her first Butterfly, in Savona in 1953. It was a role she took to instinctively, as the distinguished pre-war soprano Mafalda Favero instantly recognised. Favero taught Scotto how to sing dramatic lines without forcing the voice, but she also issued a warning quarried from personal experience: "Be careful. The role is a killer. Remember that you have to know your strength and that you can't waste any of it because you will need it all to say farewell to your life and your child in the last act." Further pointers came from Maria Callas, who recorded the role for EMI with Karajan in 1955: an intimate and revealing portrait specifically created for the microphone. Where Callas and Karajan conjured forth a Butterfly who links Wagner's Isolde to Debussy's Mélisande, Scotto was determined to create a real theatre reading, which would combine intimacy and power. As Scotto argues in her autobiography, More than a Diva (New York, 1984), Butterfly is a woman not a child. By the age of 15, she has already experienced poverty, shame, the death of her father and such sexual experience as the role of a geisha demanded. Critics seeking a bel canto Butterfly have occasionally expressed reservations about Scotto. Writing in the Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera (London, 1993), London Green countered: Hers is a splendid voice for Butterfly: lyric, full, mobile and forward, with an inimitable flavour and an ability to penetrate the orchestra by means of colour and focus. The lower voice is uniquely shadowed without being dark, the very top is a little wiry, and it all retains a distinctive quality which suggests the Oriental. The genius of the reading lies in the detailing. At the heart of the performance is the letter-reading scene and Butterfly's revelation that she has a son by Pinkerton. At first, Scotto is the excitable child, but the remark in Pinkerton's letter "perhaps Butterfly does not remember me" draws from her a response which in Scotto's enunciation marries barely suppressed amusement with anger, pain and incredulity. When Sharpless advises her to accept Yamadori's offer of marriage, her uttering of the word "Voi?"("You?") is alone worth the price of the recording. Scotto takes the death scene to new heights, holding the ritual and individual elements in an ideal balance, The phrase "muore Butterfly", in which she tells her child that she is about to die, is marked to be sung "with a weeping voice" but, as Scotto has pointed out, no singer can actually afford to weep. Her shaping and timing of the phrase (incomparably supported by Barbirolli) is deeply touching, but it is almost immediately surpassed by her even more affecting enunciation of what is arguably the most heart-rending phrase in the entire opera: "Il materno abbandono". When Barbirolli returned to London after the sessions (finished with a minute to spare after a violent thunderstorm delayed the recording of the "Flower Duet"), he told an interviewer: "My appetite for opera has been re-whetted". Listen to the orchestral aftermath of the moment when Butterfly produces the child in the scene with Sharpless and you will hear the evidence. This is conducting "from the heart to the heart", fierce yet noble, spontaneous-seeming yet superbly judged. That, his rubato-laden but inch-perfect accompaniment of Scotto's uniquely detailed performance of the title role, helps make this Butterfly the unforgettable recording it undoubtedly is.
@MrMoguer3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot!
@johnamaral1786 Жыл бұрын
It's impossible to over listen to this masterpiece. I do, indeed come back to this recording again and again. Renata is magnificent here, she brings tears to my eyes at the end of Act 1's love scene. Carlo is at peak performance, with the best tonal control one could demand. The rest of the cast sublimely delivers what Sir Barbirolli expects of them, and the orchestra, as well, the first violin cries. It's so beautiful. I'm so very grateful to you, CM/RR, for sharing this magnum opus - it's stunning from the beginning to the sublime, beyond description ending. /:-)
@jimcadena8533 Жыл бұрын
The Great Bergonzi--what a treat!
@kbhprinsesse4 ай бұрын
The true star of this recording.
@aspis63973 жыл бұрын
Even if you don’t know Italian you can’t help being charmed by Bergonzi’s mellifluous voice. Desert island recording!
@kbhprinsesse4 ай бұрын
He's the real star of this set. Such a shame they didn't cast a soprano who had the right voice type for the part.
@DimitrisLian Жыл бұрын
The greatest Butterfly ever, Scotto breaks your heart into a thousand pieces every time. True Verismo! 🖤
@johnamaral178611 ай бұрын
Yes! I believe if Puccini was alive to hear this he would exclaim, "Finalmente ho trovato la mia farfalla!" /:-)
@kbhprinsesse4 ай бұрын
And your eardrums each time she screeches her high notes.
@ThurstonCyclist11 ай бұрын
I come back to this after Renata Scotto passed away, but there's more to this recording than one singer. Besides Scotto, Bergonzi and Panerai were also at their considerable best, and it feels like a shame Barbirolli didn't record more operas. One of the all time great opera recordings.
@judyholmes16349 ай бұрын
I'm grateful for sharing this wonderful recording. I saw Butterfly on Oct 18 2023 at Detroit Opera House with Karah Son in the leader. I shared this glorious experience with a friend saying that my all time dream is to see Butterly at La Scala. I was surprised when she said that in fact she saw the production at La Scala with Renata Scotto when she was studying art in Italy. Sublime!
@Cristobels-Green-Boots3 жыл бұрын
I feel so lucky to have found this --- way back in the day, I taped a broadcast of this production from the BBC 💔 The cassette was somehow mislaid...... More recently, I thought of purchasing the recording from a certain Mail Order Firm -- the DVD is, not surprisingly. a collectible with an astronomical price...... So, now I come full circle, & this presentation sounds perfectly fine, even on my phone! So, many thanks for making a little dream come true 💔 From Lockdown Brighton 🌈 UK take care & be well y'all! 🙏🏼🌹🙏🏽
@GarthAstrology Жыл бұрын
Everything about this performance is so thrillingly individualistic, from the highly specific Butterfly to the idiosyncratic but totally echt conducting of Barbirolli. Bergonzi, like Scotto, is musician and poet. Other recordings may hold other kinds of appeal, but this one is penetrating and overwhelmingly emotional.
@TheJohn15672 жыл бұрын
Renata Scotto was sublime in this role!
@kbhprinsesse4 ай бұрын
Screeching all your high notes doesn't make you sublime.
@paulchomnycky17122 ай бұрын
the definitive Cio Cio San! None better!
@marccollins9317 ай бұрын
To me, Callas will also be La Davinia. But Renatta Scotto will never be surpassed in her Che tu Madre and Con onor and Tu, tu, piccolo Addio. With goosebumps, I weep EVERY TIME.
@LindowАй бұрын
An absolutely sublime recording. And isn't Rolando Panerai's voice just gorgeous?
@OmarFernandesAly11 ай бұрын
Thank you very much for this masterful performance that I have listen as an homage to the great diva that left us last week.
@angela5310013 жыл бұрын
Thank you. Beautiful opera.
@1968KWT11 ай бұрын
RIP Renata Scotto 🌹🌹🌹
@pascalemahieu91782 жыл бұрын
Franchement j'adore. Merci.
@loribarachini9472 ай бұрын
Questa edizione con questi cantanti x me è fra le migliori
@carlosgonzalezalatorre81322 жыл бұрын
La más sublime interpretación de esta Opera de Operas.....genial Scotto....
@vgedeom3 жыл бұрын
Grazie tante Renata
@fabiobiolcati16323 жыл бұрын
Absolutely outstanding performance.
@caterinadelprete8774Ай бұрын
Musica stupenda, evviva Puccini
@loribarachini9472 ай бұрын
Bellissima interpretazione di tutti gli interpreti Sopra tutti emerge Butterfly
@lucagilardi3209 Жыл бұрын
la mia prima madama butterfly... avevo 13 anni... che ricordi
@alfredoechevarrieta75123 жыл бұрын
Gran Opera. Y de gran tristeza. Excelente versión. Muchas gracias Classical Music.
@KASH100433 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much - that was sheer heaven!
@yaelpalombo4093 Жыл бұрын
Sublime Renata💖👏🌹💖
@luisvalez3 жыл бұрын
I have no words. That's all 🌹
@BalbirSingh-gr2qk3 жыл бұрын
Beautiful .
@nicla641011 ай бұрын
Riposi in pace . Forse la piu' grande Butterfly... ❤
@user-fl7bu6hr3o9 ай бұрын
La seule cantatrice qui atteint le niveau de la Callas dans ce rôle…
@sretenmirkovic71853 жыл бұрын
Merci!
@user-bz4qq6qz7g3 жыл бұрын
Excellent
@steveegallo33843 жыл бұрын
....and that whole "intermezzo" section from 01:48:00....the complexity and sophistication.....OMyGod....How did Puccini even conceive it?????
@vinoveritas4921 Жыл бұрын
Because he was Puccini ...
@dejanstevanic54083 жыл бұрын
Thank you and Happy New Year!
@davidelucia8727 Жыл бұрын
L'unica vera Butterfly
@joseaguinaga57853 жыл бұрын
Is it posible to access the cue file about this recording?
@weiliu36236 ай бұрын
She was 32 here.
@user-ql3ww1kj1l3 ай бұрын
46:47
@Dylonely42 Жыл бұрын
1:01:50
@Wilma1529 Жыл бұрын
Who is dat sittin up in the tree that Butterfly is starring at?
@urfule Жыл бұрын
Il pettirosso
@johnpickford422210 ай бұрын
@joevogue1146: What’s it to you? Butterfly got nuf on her mind that she needs some time alone to chill. Lookin’ at dah birds
@Dylonely427 ай бұрын
29:23
@Archonnoir3 жыл бұрын
Although I really love Barbirolli's conducting, it is really hard for me to listen to any other Butterfly than Freni's (Karajan).
@johnpickford422210 ай бұрын
@Galeyn: Try harder.
@maestroclassico58013 жыл бұрын
I just now realized that RIGHT! I'm not familiar with hardly any Barbirolli Opera recordings! Scotto is fine. She was actually a pretty fair actress. Puccini was her strength......though she never had the pureness of tone that Mirella Freni had.
@detectivefiction37012 жыл бұрын
"I'm not familiar with hardly any Barbarolli recordings.". So you're very familiar with them, then?
@maestroclassico58012 жыл бұрын
@@detectivefiction3701Not his opera recordings but definitely his recordings of British Composers and his recordings of Mahler. He was the finest British Conductor of Mahler IMO. I was familiar with Renata Scotto from many other performances and recordings over the years.
@emmanuelmassarotti55352 жыл бұрын
I love callas but scotto is my prefered butterfly and barbirolli is much better than karajan
@AulicExclusiva Жыл бұрын
I never liked Scotto's cold, shrill, unsteady voice, or Barbirolli's slow, portentous, un-Italianate tempi. The whole thing, though, is very expertly executed.
@alessandrocarlino45087 ай бұрын
"Voce fredde ,stridula e instabile"ma che fesserie scrive!Ad averne di così brave!!!!!
@danielerefuveille65325 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@xxsaruman82xx873 жыл бұрын
Bergonzi, Panerai and Barbirolli are great, but Scotto is overrated.
@BirdArvid3 жыл бұрын
Horses for courses; I love Scotto but have no need for Bergonzi or Panerai.
@ginopietracupa43053 жыл бұрын
Scotto: a lyricalleggero soprano with a colorless voice and ugly strident top, and as an artist : false emotion
@barrybernstein9049 Жыл бұрын
@@BirdArvid Please tell me where Carlo Bergonzi fails here?
@johnpickford422210 ай бұрын
@xxsaruman82xx87: We’ll I guess she agrees with you because she commits suicide at the end. But if she is overrated at least she has something to show for it unlike you.
@JafuetTheSame2 жыл бұрын
I really like the quality of this recording, but I can't get over Scotto's annoying voice. Can someone recommend me any other great recording? (I was trying Karajan's but the sound quality is rather off-putting)
@detectivefiction37012 жыл бұрын
What about Scotto's voice do you find annoying?
@JafuetTheSame2 жыл бұрын
@@detectivefiction3701 I would describe it as bleating. Sorry. I'm not sure if it is just her take on a japanese character or if it is her normal voice.
@detectivefiction37012 жыл бұрын
She did have a lot of vibrato, but I find that most Italian sopranos--or Italian opera singers in general--have the same.
@JafuetTheSame2 жыл бұрын
@@detectivefiction3701 I can't recall having a problem with any singer until now. But I'm not really an opera buff.
@LordHaveMercy Жыл бұрын
Victoria de los Angeles (Santini, EMI, 1959)?
@kbhprinsesse4 ай бұрын
Trying to be as beefy as Tebaldi and as expressive as Callas will ruin your voice - and the ears of the listeners - when nature has equipped you with a leggero voice of limited power and ditto tone colour. Awful.