Madam Butterfly

Album by Giacomo Puccini & Cheryl Barker & Jean Rigby & Paul Charles Clarke & Gregory Yurisich & Stuart Kale & D'Arcy Bleiker & Philharmonia Orchestra & Yves Abel

Madama Butterfly is an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, first performed in 1904. The work combines late-Romantic orchestration and soaring vocal lyricism with elements of verismo and musical gestures evoking a Japanese setting, and it occupies a central place in Puccini's output and early 20th-century operatic repertoire.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: Introduction
    1:06
  2. 2.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: So the walls and the ceiling… (Pinkerton, Goro)
    2:06
  3. 3.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: I think Your Honour’s smiling (Suzuki, Pinkerton, Goro)
    2:17
  4. 4.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: It can’t be much further now! (Sharpless, Goro, Pinkerton)
    1:19
  5. 5.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: The whole world over (Pinkerton, Sharpless)
    2:22
  6. 6.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: Fate can’t crush him (Pinkerton, Sharpless)
    1:13
  7. 7.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: Is the bride very pretty? (Sharpless, Goro, Pinkerton)
    1:05
  8. 8.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: True love or fancy (Pinkerton, Sharpless)
    3:22
  9. 9.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: See them! They’re climbing the summit of the hill! (Goro, Butterfly’s Girl Friends, Butterfly, Sharpless)
    3:29
  10. 10.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: We are honoured (Butterfly, Girl Friends, Pinkerton, Sharpless, Goro)
    3:34
  11. 11.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: The Imperial Commissioner (Goro, Pinkerton, Relations and Friends, Butterfly, Yakuside)
    1:48
  12. 12.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: Oh, indeed, my friend, you’re lucky! (Sharpless, Butterfly)
    1:16
  13. 13.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: Come, my beloved (Pinkerton, Butterfly, Goro)
    3:25
  14. 14.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: My fate I have to follow (Butterfly)
    1:17
  15. 15.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: Silence! Silence! (Goro, Commissioner, Girl Friends, Butterfly)
    1:52
  16. 16.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: Congratulations (Commissioner, Pinkerton, Sharpless, Registrar, Relatives, the Bonze, Goro)
    4:32
  17. 17.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: Dearest, my dearest, weep no more (Pinkerton, Butterfly, Suzuki)
    2:06
  18. 18.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: Evening is falling… (Pinkerton, Butterfly, Suzuki)
    3:30
  19. 19.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: Child, from whose eyes the witchery is shining (Pinkerton, Butterfly)
    3:52
  20. 20.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act I: Ah, love me a little (Butterfly, Pinkerton)
    7:33
  21. 21.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: Izaghi Izanami (Suzuki, Butterfly)
    6:47
  22. 22.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: One fine day (Butterfly)
    4:37

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: Come, let’s enter (Goro, Sharpless, Butterfly)
    4:23
  2. 3.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: Yamadori, and has your unrequitted love not yet released you? (Butterfly, Yamadori, Sharpless, Goro)
    4:52
  3. 4.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: Now, at last! (Sharpless, Butterfly)
    3:01
  4. 5.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: Just two things I could do (Butterfly, Sharpless)
    2:07
  5. 6.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: This child! This child, then! (Butterfly, Sharpless)
    1:49
  6. 7.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: Do you know, my darling (Butterfly)
    3:23
  7. 8.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: I must be going (Sharpless, Butterfly, Suzuki)
    1:42
  8. 9.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: Ah! Ah! (Goro, Suzuki, Butterfly)
    1:51
  9. 10.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: Look, it’s a man‐of‐war! (Suzuki, Butterfly)
    2:33
  10. 11.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: Flower duet. Shake the cherry tree (Butterfly, Suzuki)
    9:55
  11. 12.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 1: Humming Chorus
    2:59
  12. 13.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 2: Prelude
    4:29
  13. 14.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 2: Daybreak over Nagasaki
    2:52
  14. 15.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 2: It’s morning (Suzuki, Butterfly)
    2:00
  15. 16.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 2: Who is it?… (Suzuki, Pinkerton, Sharpless)
    2:42
  16. 17.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 2: I know for such misfortune there is no consolation (Sharpless, Suzuki, Pinkerton)
    3:58
  17. 18.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 2: Farewell, oh happy home! (Pinkerton, Sharpless)
    1:51
  18. 19.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 2: Then will you tell her? (Kate, Suzuki)
    1:19
  19. 20.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 2: Suzuki, where are you? (Butterfly, Suzuki)
    1:46
  20. 21.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 2: You, Suzuki, you’re always so faithful (Butterfly, Susuki)
    1:13
  21. 22.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 2: Viper! I want you to answer (Butterfly, Suzuki, Sharpless, Kate)
    3:39
  22. 23.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 2: Your little fluttering heart is beating (Suzuki, Butterfly)
    2:54
  23. 24.
    Madama Butterfly, SC 74, Act II Part 2: Death with honour is better than life with dishonour (Butterfly)
    5:05

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