7th September
Concert will begin at 15:10 hours GMT
Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly' with Grigorian, Vitulskis, Smoriginas and Prudnikovaite from Vilnius
Puccini's 'Madama Butterfly' is an opera in three acts with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The opera is based in part on the short story 'Madame Butterfly' (1898) by John Luther Long, which in turn was based partially on stories told to Long by his sister Jennie Correll and partially on the semi-autobiographical 1887 French novel Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti. In 1904, a U.S. Naval officer named Pinkerton rents a house on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, for himself and his soon-to-be wife, 'Butterfly'. Her real name is Ciocio-san.
Performers: Cio Cio San: Asmik Grigorian. Pinkerton: Merunas Vitulskis. Sharpless: Kostas Smoriginas, Suzuki: Ieva Prudnikovaite. Goro: Rafailas Karpis. Bonzo: Egidijus Dauskurdis. Yamadori: Arunas Malkenas.
Kaunas State Choir. Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gintaras Rinkevicius.
Recorded 2015.
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