An Introduction to Puccini: Madama Butterfly by Thomson Smillie

An Introduction to Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Opera Explained

Thomson Smillie with Giacomo Puccini, David Timson (Narrator)

1 hour, 6 minutes first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction music
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Madama Butterfly runs the gamut of operatic emotions. The title heroine has a fragility wonderfully expressed in her entry music, deep sexual instincts as shown in the love duet, and immense tragic stature in her last hours. The fate of Madama But...

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