Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Pappano, Gheorghiu, Kaufmann, et al

Label: EMI Classics
Catalog No: EMI 641872
New Release: No
Previous Release: No
Domestic/Import: Domestic
Format: CD

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Release Date: 2009-03-10
Number of Discs: 2
Running time: 2 hr. 15 min.
UPC Code: 5099926418728

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"Gheorghiu's top notes are brilliant--she nails the big (optional) D-flat at the close of Butterly's entrance--but her voice has an inherently dark hue. She sings "small" and modestly without overdoing the girlish quality in the first act; she's wonderfully playful when asked her age, and, alone with Pinkerton, she's sweet and flirtatious... Pappano leads an enormously effective and affecting performance. The first several minutes of the opera have all the hustle and bustle they should, with carefree Pinkerton taking in all that is new and Goro's keenness playing into his desires. The total mood change when Butterfly is heard offstage is stunningly handled; Pappano gives the scene an almost holy atmosphere... this is a beautiful reading of the score, one that stands up well with the best." -Classics Today
 



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Puccini, Giacomo : Il cielo di Nagasaki (Madama Butterfly)

  • Performers: Raymond Aceto (Bass); Gregory Bonfatti (Tenor); Fabio Capitanucci (Baritone); Mariachiara Chizzoni (Voice); Angela Gheorghiu (Soprano); Jonas Kaufmann (Tenor); Roberta Nicola (Voice); Simonetta Pelacchi (Voice); Enkelejda Shkosa (Mezzo Soprano); Massimo Simeoli (Baritone); Massimiliano Tonsini (Tenor); Roberto Valentini (Bass Baritone)
  • Conductor: Antonio Pappano
  • Ensemble: Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra
  • Notes: Sala Santa Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy (07/07/2008-07/19/2008)
  • Running Time: 86 min. 11 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Form: Opera/Operetta
  • Written: 1904


 

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