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Madama Butterfly [videorecording (DVD)] / Giacomo Puccini ; libretto Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa.

Opus Arte : distributed by Naxos (Europe) Ltd., 2019.

DVD 792.542 M178g Perf

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (143 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Based on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long and the play "Madame Butterfly" by David Belasco.

Filmed opera in 3 acts.

Extra features: Madame Butterfly: metamorphosis ; cast gallery.

Includes booklet with program notes and synopsis in English (13 pages ; 18 cm) inserted in container.

"The filming of Madama Butterfly was made possible by an investment from Glyndebourne's New Generation program"--Container.

Recorded at Glyndebourne, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom on 21 June, 2018.

Sung in Italian (Dolby digital dts Surround, LPCM 2) with English, French, German, Japanese and Korean subtitles.

A co-production between Glyndebourne, François Roussillon et Associés and Mezzo in association with France Télévisions and Sonostream.tv with the support of Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée ; conductor, Omer Mier Wellber ; director, Annilese Miskimmon ; executive producer, George Bruell ; film director, François Roussillon.

Olga Busuioc (Cio-Cio San), Joshua Guerrero (Pinkerton), Michael Sumuel (Sharpless), Carlo Bosi (Goro) and Elizabeth DeShong (Suzuki) ; with the London Philharmonic Orchestra ; leader, Pieter Schoeman and the Glyndebourne Chorus ; chorus master, Nicholas Jenkins.

"Olga Busuioc’s Cio-Cio-San – a ‘performance of sustained dramatic intensity and vocal brilliance’ (The Arts Desk) -- propels this Festival-premiere production of Madama Butterfly. Annilese Miskimmon’s thought-provoking reading, lauded for its ‘perception and clarity’, updates the opera’s setting to the 1950s, confronting the darker political and emotional currents of a work that acknowledges some barriers are too great even for love. Guerrero endows Pinkerton with ‘soaring, wilful, preening grace’ and Puccini’s score is ‘sensuously and expertly player...under the eagerly responsive baton of Omer Meir Wllber’ (The Guardian). DeShong gives Suzuki ‘sanity and compassion, with a voice of superb authority’ and the chorus is ‘luminous in its humming serenade’ (Telegraph ★★★★)."--Container.

Televised operas.

Filmed performances.

Classical/Opera/Choral.

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Madama Butterfly.

Long, John Luther, 1861-1927. Madame Butterfly.

Belasco, David, 1853-1931. Madame Butterfly.

Wellber, Omer Meir, 1981-

Miskimmon, Annilese.

Roussillon, François.

Busuioc, Olga, 1986-

Guerrero, Joshua.

Sumuel, Michael.

DeShong, Elizabeth.

London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Glyndebourne Festival Chorus.

Opus Arte (Firm)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

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