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PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly (Madam Butterfly) (Sung in English)

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Label: Chandos

Series: Opera in English

Genre: Opera

Period: Romantic

Catalogue No: CHAN3070-71

Barcode: 095115307021

Release Date: 11/2001

PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly (Madam Butterfly) (Sung in English)

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Disc 1

Puccini, Giacomo
Giacosa, Giuseppe - Lyricist
Illica, Luigi - Lyricist

Madama Butterfly (Madam Butterfly) (Sung in English)

Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Kale, Stuart (tenor)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir (Choir)
Wood, Roland (bass)
Bleiker, D’Arcy (baritone)
Thaarup, Kasper (trombone)
Taylor, Ann (mezzo-soprano)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

1

Act I: Introduction

01:05

Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

2

Act I: So the walls and the ceiling … (Pinkerton, Goro)

02:06

Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Kale, Stuart (tenor)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

3

Act I: I think Your Honour's smiling (Suzuki, Pinkerton, Goro)

02:17

Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kale, Stuart (tenor)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

4

Act I: It can't be much further now! (Sharpless, Goro, Pinkerton)

01:20

Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Kale, Stuart (tenor)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

5

Act I: The whole world over (Pinkerton, Sharpless)

02:22

Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

6

Act I: Fate can't crush him (Pinkerton, Sharpless)

01:13

Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

7

Act I: Is the bride very pretty? (Sharpless, Goro, Pinkerton)

01:06

Kale, Stuart (tenor)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

8

Act I: True love or fancy (Pinkerton, Sharpless)

03:23

Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

9

Act I: See them! They're climbing the summit of the hill! (Goro, Butterfly's Girl Friends, Butterfly, Sharpless)

03:30

Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Kale, Stuart (tenor)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir (Choir)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

10

Act I: We are honoured (Butterfly, Girl Friends, Pinkerton, Sharpless, Goro)

03:34

Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Kale, Stuart (tenor)
Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

11

Act I: The Imperial Commissioner (Goro, Pinkerton, Relations and Friends, Butterfly, Yakuside)

01:48

Geoffrey Mitchell Choir (Choir)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

12

Act I: Oh, indeed, my friend, you're lucky! (Sharpless, Butterfly)

01:16

Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

13

Act I: Come, my beloved (Pinkerton, Butterfly, Goro)

03:25

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Kale, Stuart (tenor)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

14

Act I: My fate I have to follow (Butterfly)

01:17

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

15

Act I: Silence! Silence! (Goro, Commissioner, Girl Friends, Butterfly)

01:52

Wood, Roland (bass)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir (Choir)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Kale, Stuart (tenor)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

16

Act I: Congratulations (Commissioner, Pinkerton, Sharpless, Registrar, Relatives, the Bonze, Goro)

04:33

Geoffrey Mitchell Choir (Choir)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

17

Act I: Dearest, my dearest, weep no more (Pinkerton, Butterfly, Suzuki)

02:06

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

18

Act I: Evening is falling … (Pinkerton, Butterfly, Suzuki)

03:31

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

19

Act I: Child, from whose eyes the witchery is shining (Pinkerton, Butterfly)

03:52

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

20

Act I: Ah, love me a little (Butterfly, Pinkerton)

07:28

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

21

Act II Part 1: Izaghi Izanami (Suzuki, Butterfly)

06:47

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

22

Act II Part 1: One fine day (Butterfly)

04:35

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

Disc 2

1

Act II Part 1: Come, let's enter (Goro, Sharpless, Butterfly)

04:22

Kale, Stuart (tenor)
Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

2

Act II Part 1: Yamadori, and has your unrequitted love not yet released you? (Butterfly, Yamadori, Sharpless, Goro)

04:53

Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Kale, Stuart (tenor)
Bleiker, D’Arcy (baritone)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

3

Act II Part 1: Now, at last! (Sharpless, Butterfly)

03:01

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

4

Act II Part 1: Just two things I could do (Butterfly, Sharpless)

02:07

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

5

Act II Part 1: This child! This child, then! (Butterfly, Sharpless)

01:49

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

6

Act II Part 1: Do you know, my darling (Butterfly)

03:24

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

7

Act II Part 1: I must be going (Sharpless, Butterfly, Suzuki)

01:43

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

8

Act II Part 1: Ah! Ah! (Goro, Suzuki, Butterfly)

01:52

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Kale, Stuart (tenor)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

9

Act II Part 1: Look, it's a man-of-war! (Suzuki, Butterfly)

02:33

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

10

Act II Part 1: Flower duet: Shake the cherry tree (Butterfly, Suzuki)

09:55

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

11

Act II Part 1: Humming Chorus

02:55

Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir (Choir)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

12

Act II Part 2: Prelude

04:29

Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

13

Act II Part 2: Daybreak over Nagasaki

02:52

Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

14

Act II Part 2: It's morning (Suzuki, Butterfly)

02:01

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

15

Act II Part 2: Who is it? … (Suzuki, Pinkerton, Sharples)

02:42

Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Thaarup, Kasper (trombone)
Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

16

Act II Part 2: I know for such misfortune there is no consolation (Sharpless, Suzuki, Pinkerton)

03:59

Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Thaarup, Kasper (trombone)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

17

Act II Part 2: Farewell, oh happy home! (Pinkerton, Sharpless)

01:51

Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Clarke, Paul Charles (tenor)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

18

Act II Part 2: Then will you tell her? (Kate, Suzuki)

01:19

Taylor, Ann (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

19

Act II Part 2: Suzuki, where are you? (Butterfly, Suzuki)

01:47

Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

20

Act II Part 2: You, Suzuki, you're always so faithful (Butterfly, Suzuki)

01:14

Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

21

Act II Part 2: Viper! I want you to answer (Butterfly, Suzuki, Sharpless, Kate)

03:40

Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Taylor, Ann (mezzo-soprano)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Yurisich, Gregory (baritone)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

22

Act II Part 2: Your little fluttering heart is beating (Suzuki, Butterfly)

02:55

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Rigby, Jean (mezzo-soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

23

Act II Part 2: Death with honour is better than life with dishonour (Butterfly)

05:04

Barker, Cheryl (soprano)
Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra)
Abel, Yves (Conductor)

Total Playing Time: 02:16:53