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Giacomo Puccini
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
(Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2009) (NTSC)

Cio-Cio-San (Butterfly) – Raffaella Angeletti
F.B. Pinkerton – Massimiliano Pisapia
Suzuki – Annunziata Vestri
Sharpless – Claudio Sgura
Goro – Thomas Morris
Il Bonzo – Enrico Iori
Kate Pinkerton – Nino Batatunashvili
Il principe Yamadori – Enrico Cossutta

Coro Lirico Marchigiano ‘V. Bellini’
Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra
Daniele Callegari, conductor

Pier Luigi Pizzi, stage director, set and costume designer
Recorded live from Arena Sferisterio, Macerata, Italy, 2009.

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean
Booklet notes: English, German, French
Running time: 137 mins
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)

•“One cannot help but enjoy the perfection ‘à la Pizzi’ of the production…” “Raffaella Angeletti is certainly one of the best Butterflies of our time”. “An excellent production … with the emotion that great actors can convey when they are well directed”
ForumOpera.com
•”[Raffaella Angeletti] is a first-rate Cio-Cio San” Avvenire
•“a production based on noteworthy, felicitous decisions. A staging inhabited by the music…” “authoritative conducting of Daniele Callegari, who confers breadth and depth to the score” Gazzetta di Parma
•“Pizzi works with the elegance and refinement he is known for”
“Daniele Callegari is perfectly familiar with the universe of the Puccinian sonorities” Rinascita