"Miss Saigon Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera ""Madame Butterfly"", and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and ""Madame Butterfly""'s story of marriage between an American lieutenant and a geisha is replaced by a romance between a United States Marine and a South Vietnamese bargirl. The musical was premièred at the Theatre Royal, Drury"
"Madama Butterfly Madama Butterfly (; ""Madam Butterfly"") is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story ""Madame Butterfly"" (1898) by John Luther Long, which in turn was based on stories told to Long by his sister Jennie Correll and on the semi-autobiographical 1887 French novel ""Madame Chrysanthème"" by Pierre Loti. Long's version was dramatized by David Belasco as the one-act play ""Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan"", which, after premiering in New York in 1900, moved to London, where Puccini saw"
"presented two major new productions, ""Madama Butterfly"" and ""Tosca"". In addition, the program included Puccini's first opera, ""Le Villi"", presented in concert, with performances by Katia Ricciarelli and Josè Cura. In 2004 the Puccini Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary by a season featuring two great events: one was a new production of ""Madama Butterfly"" celebrating the centenary of its première in Brescia on 28 May 1904. It was conducted by Plácido Domingo with Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato in the leading roles. The second was a special evening dedicated to Puccini's heroines, presenting the most beloved arias from the Maestro's"
"adaptation was close to being produced when he said, ""Sooner rather than later, the movie won't just be in my mind"". As well as this, the 2014 ""25th anniversary"" performance of ""Miss Saigon"" in London was filmed for an Autumn cinema broadcast. In March 2016, it was reported that Danny Boyle was in talks to direct the film for a 2018 release. Miss Saigon Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera ""Madame Butterfly"", and similarly tells the tragic tale of a"
"performance on 28 May 1904 in Brescia. ""Madama Butterfly"" is a staple of the operatic repertoire around the world, ranked 6th by Operabase; Puccini's ""La bohème"" and ""Tosca"" rank 3rd and 5th. Puccini wrote five versions of the opera. The original two-act version, which was presented at the world premiere at La Scala on 17 February 1904, was withdrawn after the disastrous premiere. Puccini then substantially rewrote it, this time in three acts. This second version was performed on 28 May 1904 in Brescia, where it was a great success. It was this second version that premiered in the United"
"Verdi, Puccini, Bellini, and Donizetti. Zhang Liping Zhang Liping (; born 1965) is a Chinese-Canadian soprano, who has sung leading roles in the opera houses of both Europe and North America. She is particularly known for her portrayal of Madama Butterfly. Zhang Liping was born in Wuhan, Hubei (about 650 miles south-west of Beijing) and is the daughter of a classical musician and a dancer. She entered the Wuhan Conservatoire to study voice. As a young student, she was selected to sing with Plácido Domingo in Tian'anmen Square. She then moved to Vancouver to study with Canadian mezzo-soprano Phyllis Mailing"
"opera (28 May 1904 at the Teatro Grande in Brescia) it was sung by the famous Ukrainian soprano Solomiya Krushelnytska. It has been subsequently performed by many sopranos (including Geraldine Farrar, Maria Callas, and Renata Tebaldi among others), recently also by at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where the original version of the opera was staged on 7 December 2016. In 1984 the pop musician Malcolm McLaren adapted the aria for his single ""Madam Butterfly (Un bel di vedremo)"", a Synth-pop remix of opera and 1980s R&B. The record reached No.13 in the UK Singles Chart and was included"
"""Il piccolo Marat"" and ""Iris"", and Nedda in Leoncavallo's ""Pagliacci"". Though essentially a lyric soprano, she occasionally sang a few spinto Verdi roles such as Leonora and Aida, and also Giordano's Maddalena and Fedora. She retired from the stage in 1946, and turned to teaching. Among her pupils was British soprano Amy Shuard. Pampanini died in Rovigo, aged 76. Rosetta Pampanini Rosetta Pampanini (2 September 1896 – 2 August 1973) was an Italian soprano, particularly associated with Puccini roles, especially Madama Butterfly. Pampanini was born in Milan. She began singing as a child, and later studied with Emma Malajoli. She"
"Poor Butterfly ""Poor Butterfly"" is a popular song. It was inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera ""Madame Butterfly"" and contains a brief musical quote from the Act two duet ""Tutti i fior"" in the verse. The music was written by Raymond Hubbell, the lyrics by John L. Golden. The song was published in 1916. It was introduced in the Broadway show ""The Big Show"", which opened in August 1916 at the New York Hippodrome, and was sung in the show by Sophie Bernard. The song has become a pop standard, recorded by many artists. The two biggest hit versions in 1917"
"alla Scala in Milan, as Madama Butterfly, in 1925, and appeared there until 1937. Afterwards she began singing at all the major opera houses of Europe; the Monte Carlo Opera in 1927, the Royal Opera House in London, from 1928 to 1933, the Liceu in Barcelona and the Vienna State Opera in 1930, the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1931 to 1932, and the Paris Opéra in 1935. She also appeared in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. A great Puccini interpreter, especially as Madama Butterfly, she also sang ""Manon Lescaut"", ""La bohème"", ""Tosca"", and Liu in ""Turandot"", also Mascagni's"
"Henry Hwang wrote a play entitled ""M. Butterfly"" which is a commentary on the racist stereotypes in the Puccini opera. Despite the tragic tone of the play, Hwang obviously satirizes Western ignorance about Asia and the fantasy of the passive Asian woman. David Cronenberg adapted the play into a film in 1993. The production of the play caught the attention of Giacomo Puccini, who would compose the Orientalist opera ""Madama Butterfly"" to a libretto based on Belasco's play and Long's short story. The original version of the opera, in two acts, had its premiere 17 February 1904 at La Scala"
"such as ""Nabucco"" by Giuseppe Verdi in 1842, ""La Gioconda"" by Amilcare Ponchielli, ""Madama Butterfly"" by Giacomo Puccini in 1904, ""Turandot"" by Puccini in 1926, and more recently ""Teneke"", by Fabio Vacchi in 2007. Other major theatres in Milan include the Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Teatro Dal Verme, Teatro Lirico and formerly the Teatro Regio Ducal. The city is also the seat of a renowned symphony orchestra and musical conservatory, and has been, throughout history, a major centre for musical composition: numerous famous composers and musicians such as Gioseppe Caimo, Simon Boyleau, Hoste da Reggio, Verdi, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Paolo Cherici and"
"Puccini's Madama Butterfly. She was also chosen to sing Cio Cio San in the Italian production of Madama Butterfly which celebrated the centenary of the opera's first performance and which was seen throughout Italy. She was the first Chinese soprano to assume the Verdian role of Aida, she debuted this role in Vienna (2008), New York (2010), and Chicago (2012). She has remained associated with this role and has recorded it twice on video. She is also known for singing the title role in Puccini's opera Tosca, which brought her her first major breakthrough in European opera houses. Her operatic"
"Cristina Gallardo-Domâs Cristina Gallardo-Domâs is a soprano, born in Santiago, Chile, who frequently performs in operas by Puccini. Gallardo-Domâs made her debut as Madama Butterfly in 1990 at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago and, three years later, began performing in opera houses in Europe, making her La Scala debut in 1993 in ""La Rondine"". Gallardo-Domâs' many Puccini performances include: ""Turandot"" and ""Madama Butterfly"" at the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, and Royal Opera House; ""La bohème"" at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, and Paris Opéra; ""Manon Lescaut"" at the Zurich Opera and Los Angeles Opera; ""Simon Boccanegra (by Verdi)"" at"
"Nel Chiostro, Batignano Festival, Italy) ""Rigoletto"" Verdi ('The Opera Company': Hackney Empire, London and UK tour) ""Madama Butterfly"" Puccini (Opera North, UK) ""Eugene Onegin"" Tchaikovsky (Opera North, UK) ""Don Pasquale"" Donizetti (Opera Zuid, Netherlands) ""Gambler"" Prokofiev (Opera Zuid, Netherlands) ""Un Ballo In Maschera"" Verdi (Lithuanian National Opera) ""I Pagliacci"" Leoncavallo (Congress Palace, Lithuania) ""Showcase"" (The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London) ""La Forza del Destino"" G.Verdi (Lithuanian National Opera and Israel National Opera) ""La Bohème"" Puccini (Congress Palace, Lithuania ) ""Die Zauberflöte"" Mozart (Congress Palace, Lithuania ) ""Werther"" Massenet (Congress Palace, Lithuania ) ""Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street"" Sondheim"
"Opera (""Madama Butterfly""), Lyric Opera of Chicago (""Madama Butterfly""), Teatro Massimo in Palermo (""Tosca""), Opéra de Montréal (""Aïda""), Dallas Opera (""Pagliacci""), Savonlinna Opera Festival (""Aïda""), Deutsche Oper Berlin (""Aïda""), Arena di Verona (""Aïda""), Teatro Filarmonico in Verona (""Madama Butterfly""), Athens International Festival (""Aïda""), Municipal Theater of Santiago (""Eugene Onegin""), Opéra de Nice (""Pagliacci""), Teatro di San Carlo (""Madama Butterfly""), Ludwigshafen Festival (""Madama Butterfly""), Cleveland Opera (""Aïda""), Opera de Puerto Rico (""Madama Butterfly""), Calgary Opera (""Manon Lescaut""), Connecticut Grand Opera (""Aïda"" and ""Tosca""), San Francisco Opera (""Tosca""), Florentine Opera (""Manon Lescaut""), Opera/Columbus (""Don Carlos""), Nashville Opera (""Pagliacci""), and New Jersey State"
"Rosetta Pampanini Rosetta Pampanini (2 September 1896 – 2 August 1973) was an Italian soprano, particularly associated with Puccini roles, especially Madama Butterfly. Pampanini was born in Milan. She began singing as a child, and later studied with Emma Malajoli. She made her stage debut in 1920, at the Teatro Nazionale in Rome, as Micaela, and in Turin in 1921, as Siebel. After further studies, she made her debut at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as Desdemona, in 1923, and sang the following year Elsa in Bergamo. Noticed by conductor Arturo Toscanini, she made her debut at the Teatro"
"remained under treatment for months. During the medical examinations that he underwent it was also found that he was suffering from a form of diabetes. The accident and its consequences slowed Puccini's completion of his next work, ""Madama Butterfly"". The original version of ""Madama Butterfly"", premiered at La Scala on 17 February 1904 with Rosina Storchio in the title role. It was initially greeted with great hostility (probably largely owing to inadequate rehearsals). When Storchio's kimono accidentally lifted during the performance, some in the audience started shouting: ""The butterfly is pregnant"" and ""There is the little Toscanini"". The latter comment"
"by Giuseppe Verdi in 1842, ""La Gioconda"" by Amilcare Ponchielli, ""Madama Butterfly"" by Giacomo Puccini in 1904, ""Turandot"" by Giacomo Puccini in 1926, and more recently ""Teneke"", by Fabio Vacchi in 2007, to name but a few. Other major theatres in Milan include the Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Teatro Dal Verme, Teatro Lirico (Milan) and the Teatro Regio Ducal. The city also has a renownded symphony orchestra and musical conservatory, and has been, throughout history, a major centre for musical composition: numerous famous composers and musicians such as Gioseppe Caimo, Simon Boyleau, Hoste da Reggio, Verdi, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Paolo Cherici and"
"""Fredman's Songs"". ""Madam Butterfly"" is a 1904 opera by Giacomo Puccini about a romantic young Japanese bride who is deserted by her American officer husband soon after they are married. It was based on John Luther Long's short story written in 1898. According to Lafcadio Hearn, a butterfly was seen in Japan as the personification of a person's soul; whether they be living, dying, or already dead. One Japanese superstition says that if a butterfly enters your guest room and perches behind the bamboo screen, the person whom you most love is coming to see you. Large numbers of butterflies"
"of Abigaille in ""Nabucco"" by Verdi and of ""Aida"". In 2014 she sang her first Cio Cio San at Arena di Verona (""Madama Butterfly""). At Teatro Filarmonico in Verona she debuted in 2004 as the main role in ""Tosca"" by Puccini; then ""The merry widow"" (operetta) by Lehár in 2005, ""Manon Lescaut"" in 2011 and Nedda in ""Pagliacci"" in 2012; Odabella in ""Attila"" (opera) by Verdi in 2013. In 2007 she debuted as ""Tosca"" with José Cura at Wiener Staatsoper. During the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago in 2010 she debuted ""Madama Butterfly"" and came back to this festival"
"the arrival of Pinkerton's ship, but it proves to be her last; Butterfly learns that Pinkerton has married another woman, and at the end of the opera the distraught Butterfly takes her own life. ""Un bel dì vedremo"" is especially significant as it appeals to audiences with its emotive melody but also encapsulates the tragedy at the heart of the opera, foretelling Cio-Cio San's inevitable demise. The aria was first performed by the well-known soprano Rosina Storchio at the premiere of ""Madama Butterfly"" on 17 February 1904 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In the revised version of the"
"over the next two years, and made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with ""Madama Butterfly"" in 1928. The following year he was invited to conduct the opening work in Covent Garden's international season, ""Don Giovanni"", with a cast that included Mariano Stabile, Elisabeth Schumann and Heddle Nash. In 1929, after financial problems had forced the BNOC to disband, the Covent Garden management set up a touring company to fill the gap, and appointed Barbirolli as its musical director and conductor. The operas in the company's first provincial tour included ""Die Meistersinger"", ""Lohengrin"", ""La bohème"", ""Madama Butterfly"","
"for opera programmes at the Manoel Theatre in Malta, conducting new music productions such as: Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti, Il Trovatore, I Pagliacci by Leoncavallo and Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Mozart's Clemenza di Tito. Maestro Binetti is also the author of an orchestration of Puccini's Madama Butterfly for ballet, performed with great acclaim from critics in Prague, with choreography by Robert Balogh. He is also the author of a ballet version of Cinderella, with the music of Gioacchino Rossini, held in the Opera Houses of Kraków and Lodz in Poland, and presented later in Vienna and in Edinburgh. Since 2009"
"Bosini sang a wide range of parts during her career. Other roles she created on stage included Cio-Cio-San in ""Madama Butterfly"", Desdemona in ""Otello"", Elsa in ""Lohengrin"", a flower maiden in ""Parsifal"", Hanna Glawari in ""The Merry Widow"", Maria in ""Guglielmo Ratcliff"", Margherita in ""Mefistofele"", Marguerita in ""Faust"", Micaela in ""Carmen"", Nedda in ""Pagliacci"", and the title roles of Giordano's ""Fedora"", Mascagni's ""Iris"", Massenet's ""Manon"", and Puccini's ""Manon Lescaut"" and ""Tosca"". After retiring from the stage in 1930, Bosini taught singing in Milan and managed her husband's career. She and her husband lived their latter years at the Casa di"
"the following action. Butterfly takes the knife and walks behind the screen. The knife clatters to the floor as Butterfly staggers from behind the screen with a scarf around her neck. She kisses her child and collapses. From outside, Pinkerton cries, ""Butterfly!"" and rushes in – but it is too late: Butterfly is dead. Madama Butterfly Madama Butterfly (; ""Madam Butterfly"") is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story ""Madame Butterfly"" (1898) by John Luther Long, which in turn was"
"the New York premiere of Lehár’s ""The Merry Widow"" with a contemporary libretto by the late Wendy Wasserstein. Since its founding, Dicapo has been particularly dedicated to the music of Giacomo Puccini. It gave the first performances anywhere of all three versions of Puccini’s ""Madama Butterfly"" (Milan, Brescia, and Paris) successively in one weekend. With choreography by Dicapo’s Director of Dance Nilas Martins, Dicapo was the first to present music and dance presentations of Puccini’s ""Le Villi"" and The Mass, and has also presented settings of a number of Puccini songs and incidental music to dance. By the end of"
"and directed by John Dexter; it starred John Lithgow as Gallimard and BD Wong as Song Liling. David Dukes, Anthony Hopkins, Tony Randall, and John Rubinstein played Gallimard at various times during the original run. A highly unusual abstract staging, featuring Puccini's opera ""Madame Butterfly"" intermixed with French pop music, had Kazakh countertenor Erik Kurmangaliev star as Song; he also sang two of Butterfly's arias live during the show. This production was directed by Roman Viktyuk in Moscow, Russia in 1992. The play was a 1989 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is published by Plume and in"
"the Royal Opera in London, the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, the Berlin Staatsoper, Opera National de Paris, Theatre des Champs-Élysées, Staatsoper Vienna, Bayerische Staatsoper, Opera Australia, Teatro Colon Buenos Aires, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, Teatro alla Scala, Teatro San Carlo Naples, Theatro Municipal de Sae Paulo, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opéra de Marseille, Arena di Verona, etc. Her repertoire ranges from Violetta in ""La traviata"", ""Maria Stuarda"", ""Madame Butterfly"", ""Manon"", ""Mireille"", Amina in ""La sonnambula"", Mimi in ""La bohème"", Michaela in ""Carmen"", Giulietta in ""I Capuleti e i Montecchi"", Angelica in ""Suor Angelica"", ""Anna Bolena"", etc. In 2016"
"the east coast, to the Scottish borders, to the Central Belt and to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Operas are adapted for a small stage and a small cast with no chorus. A piano and violin replace an orchestra. An exception to this is Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin which includes a string ensemble. Each new production leads to tours which include remote and small venues. Puccini's Madame Butterfly has featured around most of Scotland. It was also performed in London's Middle Temple. Madame Butterfly was most recently reviewed following the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 at which Opera Bohemia has performed a different"
"Zhang Liping Zhang Liping (; born 1965) is a Chinese-Canadian soprano, who has sung leading roles in the opera houses of both Europe and North America. She is particularly known for her portrayal of Madama Butterfly. Zhang Liping was born in Wuhan, Hubei (about 650 miles south-west of Beijing) and is the daughter of a classical musician and a dancer. She entered the Wuhan Conservatoire to study voice. As a young student, she was selected to sing with Plácido Domingo in Tian'anmen Square. She then moved to Vancouver to study with Canadian mezzo-soprano Phyllis Mailing at the Vancouver Academy of"
"the Teatro Municipale in Bari, singing in ""La bohème"", or in Parma, or in Milan in 1935 in ""Madama Butterfly"". By the end of that year, she had debuted at La Scala as Lauretta in ""Gianni Schicchi"". She soon realized great success all over the world, especially for her performances in ""Carmen"", ""L'amico Fritz"" and ""Madama Butterfly"" in Italy, France and England. Albanese made her Metropolitan Opera debut on February 9, 1940, in the first of 72 performances as ""Madama Butterfly"" at the old Metropolitan Opera House. Her success was instantaneous, and Albanese remained at the Met for 26 seasons,"
"was mostly fully booked with a total audience number of 193,642 people, already including the dress rehearsal and crossculture night. 2018, the 73rd season of the Bregenzer Festival starts with ""Carmen"" once more and runs from 18 July to 20 August. 75% of the 210.000 Tickets have already been sold by the beginning of June 2018. The Bregenzer Festspiele continues to show a series of popular Puccini works: ""La Bohème"" was the first performance in 2001/02), followed by ""Tosca in"" 2007/08 and most recently ""Turandot"" in 2015 and 2016, ""Madame Butterfly"" in 2021/22 will be the fourth opera by the"