"15 October 1906, in Washington, D.C., at the Columbia Theater. The first performance in New York took place on 12 November of the same year at the Garden Theatre. The Metropolitan Opera first performed the work on 11 February 1907 in the presence of the composer with Geraldine Farrar as Cio-Cio San, Enrico Caruso as Pinkerton, Louise Homer as Suzuki, Antonio Scotti as Sharpless, and Arturo Vigna conducting. Three years later, the first Australian performance was presented at the Theatre Royal in Sydney on 26 March 1910, starring Amy Eliza Castles. Between 1915 and 1920, Japan's best-known opera singer Tamaki"
"Toti Dal Monte Antonietta Meneghel (27 June 189326 January 1975), better known by her stage name Toti Dal Monte, was a celebrated Italian operatic soprano. She may be best remembered today for her performance as Cio-cio-san in Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"", having recorded this role complete in 1939 with Beniamino Gigli as Pinkerton. Born in Mogliano Veneto, in the Province of Treviso, she made her debut at La Scala at the age of 23 as Biancofiore in Zandonai's ""Francesca da Rimini"". She was an immediate success, and her clear ‘nightingale-like’ voice came to be highly appreciated throughout the world. Her best-known"
"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"
"Amarilli Nizza Amarilli Nizza (born January 4, 1971 in Milan) is an Italian operatic soprano. Nizza is the descendant of the soprano Medea Mei Figner (Florence 1859 - Paris 1952). This one was also the poetical inspiration of Cajkovskij, who composed for her and her husband, the tenor Nikolaj Figner, ""La Dama di Picche"" (1890) and ""Jolanta"" (1892) performed at Marijnskij theater in Saint Pietersburg Since she was a little child she started to study piano and singing with her grandmother Claudia Biadi. In 1993 she won the competition Mattia Battistini and debuted in ""Madama Butterfly"" (as Cio-Cio-San) by Puccini"
"Throughout the 1980s, Ms. Kim performed in numerous roles in the US. She held the title the role of Cio-Cio San in Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"" with the Hawaii Opera Theater in March 1985 and in Los Angeles in October 1986. As a member of the New York City Opera, Kim appeared as Mimi in Puccini's ""La Bohème"". Other appearances include those at the Bastille Opera, the National Symphony in Washington DC, and the LA Philharmonic. She was also in Hawaii University’s Gentio fundraising recital in 1995 and musical Academy Kijiahna Festival in 1996. In March 1997, she performed the role"
"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"
"these roles at the Philadelphia Opera House 1910, which was also operated by Hammerstein. In November 1910 Melis portrayed Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"" at the Manhattan Opera House in the presence of the composer. Her performance impressed Puccini and he became an admirer of her voice. Puccini went on to personally teach Melis the role of Minnie in his ""La Fanciulla del West"", which she performed for the first time in 1911 with the Boston Opera Company. She had previously made her debut at the Boston Opera House in 1910 in the title role of Verdi's ""Aida"". She sang"
"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"
"Miura won international fame for her performances as Cio-Cio-san. A memorial to this singer, along with one to Puccini, can be found in the Glover Garden in the port city of Nagasaki, where the opera is set. 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 (""cio-cio"", pronounced ""chocho"" [t͡ʃoːt͡ʃoː], the Japanese word for ; ""san"" is a plain honorific). She is a 15-year-old Japanese girl whom he is marrying for convenience, and he intends to leave her once he"
"No 2 (Deutsche Grammophon 0289 474 5942 2) and of Verdi's ""Macbeth"" (sung in English, Chandos CHAN 3180(2)). In January 2016, Moore performed for the newly revived New York City Opera in Puccini's ""Tosca"" at the Rose Theater in Lincoln Center. In April 2016, she sang the lead role of Cio-Cio San in the San Diego Opera's performance of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, garnering critical recognition for her acting, her ""rich, supple and multi-octave soprano voice"" and vocal interpretation. Latonia Moore Latonia Moore (born 1979, in Houston, Texas) is an American soprano. Of African-American ancestry, she grew up with Black music,"
"Nancy Yuen Nancy Yuen is a Hong Kong-born Singaporean singer. Nancy Yuen Miu Fun was born in Hong Kong, reportedly in 1967. She is a top graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, London, and has based her career in the United Kingdom and Singapore. She has made Cio-cio-san (""Madama Butterfly"") her signature role, winning great international critical acclaim. Immediately upon graduation, she made her operatic debut with the Welsh National Opera in this demanding Puccini title role, and has since repeated the role all over the world, notably with the English National Opera, West Australian Opera, Opera Queensland, Northern"
"Madame Butterfly (1932 film) Madame Butterfly is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Marion Gering, based on David Belasco's play and the story by John Luther Long. It was adapted by Josephine Lovett and Joseph Moncure March. It stars Cary Grant and Sylvia Sidney. Music is credited to W. Franke Harling (although much of it is an adaptation of Giacomo Puccini's opera ""Madama Butterfly""), cinematography by David Abel, art direction by Ward Ihnen. It premiered on December 30, 1932. At Goro's Tea House, we are introduced to Cho-Cho San (Sylvia Sidney) who is bidding farewell to her mother"
"New York City. Her final public performance was as Cio-Cio San in Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"" in Barcelona in 1923. (She had sung this same part in the first performance of ""Butterfly"", at La Scala, in 1904.) Storchio died in Milan near the end of World War II. She left a small legacy of 78-rpm gramophone recordings made during the early years of the 20th century. These recordings (reissued since on CD) include extracts from verismo opera—the repertoire with which she was most closely associated. She did, however, also appear on stage in a few French operas and works by Verdi,"
"afterwards on Rai 5 TV with an audience of 97.000 people. In January 2015 she returned in Turin at Teatro Regio to perform the main character in ""Suor Angelica"". In 2011 she debuted at Royal Opera House in London as Cio-Cio-San in ""Madama Butterfly"", then Leonora in ""Il trovatore"" at Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele in Palermo, Lady Macbeth in ""Macbeth"" (opera) at Lipsia Opera, and Nedda in ""Pagliacci"" with Alberto Gazale, conducted by Daniel Oren at Teatro Verdi (Salerno). In 2012 she performed Mimì in ""La bohème"" at Opéra de Nice. In 2013 ""Amica"" at Opéra de Monte-Carlo, ""Madama Butterfly"""
"""Madama Butterfly"", the role for which she would be celebrated. Over 40 years, she sang more than 300 performances of Cio-Cio-San. Although she has been praised for many of her roles, including Mimì, Violetta, Liù and Manon Lescaut, it is her portrayal of the ""geisha"" which has remained her best known. Her connection with that work began early with her teacher, Giuseppina Baldassare-Tedeschi, a contemporary of the composer, and an important exponent of the title role in the previous generation. There is some controversy regarding when she made her formal debut. It was either in that same year (1934) at"
"first line of the song has been mistakenly referenced to punk band Half-Japanese. The line ""listening to Cio-Cio San"" is in reference to Puccini's opera, ""Madame Butterfly"", The main characters of which are an American sailor—Pinkerton—and a Japanese girl named Cio-Cio San. The singer who played Cio-Cio San at the opera's premiere in 1904 was named Rosina Storchio though the alternate spelling indicates that this is likely an unintentional reference. This, in conjunction with the song ""Pink Triangle"", and the continued reference to the opera gives the album an overarching theme. Additionally, the line ""I'm the epitome/of public enemy"" is"
"""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"
"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 Royal Opera House in London, as ""Aida"", and at the Metropolitan Opera, as Cio-Cio-San in ""Madama Butterfly"". She sang at the Metropolitan Opera until 1972, other roles included: Euridice, Marguerite, Leonora in both ""Il trovatore"" and ""La forza del destino"", Maria Boccanegra/Amelia, Violetta, Aida, Desdemona, Alice Ford, Mimi, Donna Elvira, etc. Tucci also appeared in Vienna, Berlin, and Buenos Aires. She traveled with the La Scala Opera to Moscow and Tokyo, performances that have been documented in live recordings. A versatile singer and an accomplished actress, Tucci was able to tackle a wide range of roles from bel canto"
"Eugene Onegin, Liza in The Queen of Spades, and Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly. In 1965, the young singer was sent to the La Scala theatre in Milan, where the vocal teacher and conductor, and assistant to the great Toscanini - Enrico Piazza - became her tutor. During her two-year stay the parts of Cio-Cio-San, ""Tosca"", ""Aida"", and ""Leonora in Il Trovatore"" were prepared. Her stay in Milan coincided with her participation in major international competitions. In 1966 she became a prize-winner at the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition, and in 1967 in Tokyo she won first prize and honorary ‘Gold Cup’"
"the lead role of Cio Cio San in ""Madama Butterfly"", Micaela in ""Carmen"", Musetta in Puccini's ""La bohème"", Santuzza in ""Cavalleria rusticana"", Donna Anna in ""Don Giovanni"", Elisabeth in ""Tannhäuser,"" Freia in ""Das Rheingold"", Elsa in ""Lohengrin,"" Brünnhilde in ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"", Leonora in ""La forza del destino"", Leonora in ""Fidelio"", Eva in ""Die Meistersinger,"" and the title roles in ""Aida"", ""Tosca"" (in one performance of which the famous incident with a trampoline occurred) and ""Thaïs"". In 1924, after an audition for the La Scala company in Milan, she was engaged by its principal conductor Arturo Toscanini as Freia"
"""Madama Butterfly"", and later that same year appeared as Mimì in ""La bohème"" in Los Angeles, opposite Plácido Domingo. Her Metropolitan debut in New York came in 2001 with role of Mimì, followed by Cio-Cio San and Mimì at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. She can be heard in many recordings, notably in ""Pagliacci"", ""Manon Lescaut"", ""Madama Butterfly"", ""Simon Boccanegra"", ""Otello"", ""La bohème"", ""Tosca"", ""Suor Angelica"", ""Gianni Schicchi"", Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Egmont, Brahm's Requiem, Don Carlo's Act 5 duet with Ramon Vargas for RCA, as well as a recital of Italian opera arias for Naxos. Her career has"
"Felice in Genoa (in 1911 as Nedda in Ruggero Leoncavallo's ""Pagliacci"" opposite Carlo Galeffi), the Teatro La Fenice in Venice (in 1914–1915 as Norina in Gaetano Donizetti's ""Don Pasquale"" and Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi's ""Rigoletto"") and the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (in 1918 as Elvira in Bellini's ""I puritani""). In 1919 she was engaged for the role of Cio Cio San in Giacomo Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"" at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. There Simzis met the conductor Arturo de Angelis, with whom she subsequently married and emigrated to Santiago de Chile. After the marriage Simzis's career was relegated to"
"Ida Quaiatti Ida Quaiatti (sometimes Cajatti) (1890 – February 1, 1962) was an Italian lyric soprano known especially for her performances in the work of Giacomo Puccini. Born in Split, Quaiatti studied music at the conservatory in Trieste, making her operatic debut in that city as Frasquita in ""Carmen"" in 1907. Two years later she sang the title role in ""Madama Butterfly"" in Ascoli Piceno, and soon thereafter performed in ""La bohème"" at the Teatro Sociale in Bergamo. In 1912 she won plaudits for her performance of Amilcare Ponchielli's ""Lina"" in Cremona. During her career she would go on to"
"debut at the Royal Opera, London as Gilda and in 1969 she made her first appearance with the Sadler's Wells Opera as Cio-Cio-San. She also performed and recorded the role of Musetta in ""La bohème"" with the Royal Opera, London in 1969. In 1977 Pellegrini portrayed Cio-Cio-San on a nationally broadcast production of ""Madama Butterfly"" for CBC Television with conductor Jean Deslauriers. Others in the cast included Pierre Duval, Bernard Turgeon, and Judith Forst. In 1980 she made her debut at the Opera Lyra Ottawa as Mimi in ""La bohème "". Other Canadian opera companies she has performed leading roles"
"repertoire comprises some 12 Verdian soprano roles and 12 verismo operatic roles, 7 of which belong to Puccini. In 2013 the 200th year of Verdi's birth, she performed Verdi's Requiem at the Arena di Verona and Aida in La Scala. She also takes up the Elsa in Richard Wagner's ""Lohengrin"" in 2013. He Hui resides at Verona, Italy. She was also featured in the 2017-2018 season at the Metropolitan Opera of New York as Cio Cio San in the opera Madame Butterfly. He Hui maintains a close relationship with Chinese classical music circles and performed at the National Opera House"
"""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"
"Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's ""Tosca"" with Beverly Sills as the title heroine and John Gutman directing. He joined the roster of principal artists at the New York City Opera later that year, making his first appearance with the company in the title role of Verdi's ""Macbeth"" on October 24, 1957 with Irene Jordan as Lady Macbeth, Norman Treigle as Banquo, Giuseppe Gismondo as Macduff, Ernest McChesney as Malcolm, and Helen Baisley as the Lady-in-waiting. The following month he appeared at the NYCO as Sharpless in Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"" with Mary Hensley as Cio-Cio-San. After the production closed he played Jigger"
"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"
"in 2014 to perform ""Suor Angelica"" and Giorgetta in ""Il Tabarro"". For the first time she sang in Naples in 2006, thus performing Desdemona in ""Otello"" at Teatro San Carlo; again in 2006 she performed ""Madama Butterfly"" at Arena Flegrea, where she returned in 2009 for the same role. At Teatro Regio in Turin in 2008 she performed Fidelia in ""Edgar"", aired by RAI Italian television, and in 2014 sang Cio-Cio-San in ""Madama Butterfly"", which was aired live HD at cinemas around the world, in specific over eighty cinemas in Italy and on Rai Radio 3. This opera was aired"
"Madame Butterfly (1915 film) Madame Butterfly is a 1915 silent film directed by Sidney Olcott. The film is based upon a John Luther Long short story and the opera ""Madama Butterfly"". Reportedly, leading actress Mary Pickford fought constantly with Sidney Olcott about the character. Olcott wanted Pickford to be more reserved and thought she was ""too Americanized to play a Japanese"". The film takes place in Japan in 1904. Lieutenant Pinkerton (Marshall Neilan) marries Cho-Cho-San 'Butterfly' (Mary Pickford), a 15-year-old Japanese geisha. Cho-Cho-San is lucky with her new husband and takes the marriage very seriously. Pinkterton, however, regards it as"
"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"
"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"