Puccini: Madama Butterfly (2-CD) – Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly (2-CD) – Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Artists: Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Lucia Danieli, Mario Borriello, Luisa Villa, Renato Ercolani, Mario Carlin, Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Warner Classics
CD Release Date: September 23, 2014
This re-mastered recording of Madama Butterfly from 1955 features Maria Callas in the title role, with Herbert von Karajan conducting the Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala.
“Her genius for vocal characterization finds an apt complement in Herbert von Karajan’s conducting: a wholly sympathetic rendering [that] brings out more of the detail of the score than I have ever heard before.” (Gramophone)
History
Puccini’s original version of Madama Butterfly premiered at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala in 1904. The composer was inspired to write an opera about a tragic love between a young Japanese geisha and an American Navy officer after seeing David Belasco’s play by the same name performed in London in June 1900. Puccini’s score includes many Japanese folk melodies, and is one of his most sweeping and sophisticated. It remains one of the world’s most popular operas.
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