Madama Butterfly

Album by Giacomo Puccini & Dorothy Kirsten & Daniele Barioni & Clifford Harvuot & Mildred Miller & Alessio de Paolis & Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Dimitri Mitropoulos

Madama Butterfly is an opera by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, premiered in 1904. Musically it features lush, late-Romantic orchestration, prominent lyrical melodies and the incorporation of musical elements intended to evoke Japanese settings, and it represents a development in Puccini's use of orchestral colour and dramatic pacing within his operatic output.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “… e soffitto e pareti…”
    2:15
  2. 2.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “Che guardi”
    2:36
  3. 3.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “Dovunque al mondo”
    2:27
  4. 4.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “America for ever”
    1:20
  5. 5.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “Ier l’altro il consolato”
    1:16
  6. 6.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “Ecco, son giunte al sommo del pendio”
    3:16
  7. 7.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “L’imperial commissario”
    2:12
  8. 8.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “Ieri son salita tutta sola”
    1:49
  9. 9.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “Tutti zitti!”
    3:35
  10. 10.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “Cio‐cio San!”
    2:40
  11. 11.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “Viene la sera”
    3:52
  12. 12.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “Vogliatemi bene”
    6:31
  13. 13.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “E Izaghi ed Izanami”
    5:14
  14. 14.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto I. “Un bel dì vedremo”
    4:15

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “C’è. Entrate”
    2:12
  2. 3.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “Ora a noi. Sedete qui”
    5:06
  3. 4.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “È questo? È questo?”
    2:13
  4. 5.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “Che tua madre dovrà prenderti in braccio”
    4:29
  5. 6.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “Una nave da guerra”
    7:52
  6. 7.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto II. Coro a bocca chiusa
    2:43
  7. 8.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto II. Intermezzo
    4:34
  8. 9.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “Cio-cio San”
    1:27
  9. 10.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “Chi sia?”
    4:59
  10. 11.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “Addio fiorito asil”
    8:34
  11. 12.
    Madama Butterfly: Atto II. “Con onor muore”
    5:29

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