Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Victoria de los Angeles, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Anna Maria Canali, Tito Gobbi, Renato Ercolani & Maria Huder
Rome Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
De los Angeles's first recording of Butterfly shows her in fabulous form, and Di Stefano is a marvellous Pinkerton. It's not quite as agonising as it should be, though.
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Victoria de los Angeles, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Anna Maria Canali, Tito Gobbi, Renato Ercolani & Maria Huder
Rome Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
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De los Angeles's first recording of Butterfly shows her in fabulous form, and Di Stefano is a marvellous Pinkerton. It's not quite as agonising as it should be, though.
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Contents and tracklist
- Victoria de los Angeles, Giuseppe di Stefano, Anna Maria Canali, Tito Gobbi, Renato Ercolani, Maria Huder, Arturo La Porta, Bruno Sbalchiero
- Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro dell'Opera, Roma
- Gianandrea Gavazzeni
- Recorded: 26-31 July, 2-6, 8-9, 11, 23 August 1954
- Recording Venue: Teatro dell'Opera, Rome, Italy
Act I: L'Imperial Commissario (Goro, Pinkerton, Chorus, Butterfly, Cousin, Mother, Yakuside, Aunt, Sharpless)
Track length2:14
Act I: Tutti zitti! (Goro, Imperial Commissioner, Chorus, Sharpless, Registrar, Pinkerton)
Track length3:26
Awards and reviews
December 2008
De los Angeles's first recording of Butterfly shows her in fabulous form, and Di Stefano is a marvellous Pinkerton. It's not quite as agonising as it should be, though.
When Victoria de los Angeles appeared at the Edinburgh Festival [in the mid 1950s], she was in her prime, the voice as supple and sensitive as it was beautiful. Everything she tackled seemed to be touched by the magic of her attractive presence and glorious singing.
2010 edition
The performance has many advantages over the later, stereo version. De los Angeles's tone is even more beautiful, Di Stefano is a more ardent Pinkerton, and Tito Gobbi. unexpectedly cast as a rugged Sharpless, uses that small role to point some of the set's most memorable moments.
