Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Giacomo Puccini (Artist), Arturo Basile (Artist), Renata Scotto (Artist), Renato Cioni (Artist), Franca Mattiucci (Artist), Franco Ricciardi (Artist), Alberto Rinaldi (Artist), Silvio Maionica (Artist), Vito Susca (Artist), Luciana Palombi (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 17, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Opera D'oro
• ASIN: B000005ZZX
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #836,667 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #37 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Divas > Scotto, Renata

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Act One: E soffitto pareti

2. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Act One: Dovunquel al mondo

3. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Act One: Ier l'altro al consolato

4. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Act One: Ecco, son giunti al sommo

5. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Act One: Cio-Cio-San... Cio-Cio-San!

6. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Act One: Bimba, bimba non piangere

7. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Act One: Viene la sera

8. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Act One: Vogliatemi benr

9. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Act Two: E Izaghi

10. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Un bel dì vedremo

Disc: 2

1. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: C'è. ntrate

2. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Incominciate

3. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Due cose potrei fare

4. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Che tua madre dovrà

5. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Il cannone del porto!

6. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Scuoti quella fronda di ciliegio

7. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Coro a bocca chiusa

8. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Act Three: Intermezzo

9. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Già il sole!

10. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Io so che alle sue pene

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor sound, October 13, 2000

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A. Zemach (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Audio CD)

Amazon's reviewer's comments notwithstanding I found the sound quality of this recording unaccaptable. The sound is muddy, and there are a lot of noises. I have other live opera recordings from the same period and they are much better. After just a few listenings I was so dissapointed I had to get another performance to replace this one (Scotto on EMI - great!). Beware.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A bargain recording for fans of Scotto, December 15, 2000

By 

Yuri - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Audio CD)

It has to be said that the sound quality on this live broadcast isn't brilliant but it does have atmosphere and though there are better studio versions(Tebaldi's second recording with Bergonzi is particularly recommendable)one can readily warm to it, Scotto though occasionally rough edged develops this hapless character with great vocal inteligence indeed her unique qualities are ideally suited to Butterfly and she gives a truly heart rendering final scene,Cioni isn't in her league but he does manage to shade his voice beautifully in places,the other singers are fine without being outstanding but this live bargain recording is mainly for Scotto fans.