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[Met Performance] CID:184830
Madama Butterfly
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, April 16, 1960 Matinee Broadcast
Broadcast Matinee Broadcast
Madama Butterfly (400)
Giacomo Puccini | Luigi Illica/ Giuseppe Giacosa
Available for streaming at Met Opera on Demand
Rebroadcast on Sirius Metropolitan Opera Radio
Review 1:
Review of John Ardoin in Musical America
The season's last matinee was distinguished by Dorothy Kirsten's return to the company in Cio-Cio-San. Her portrayal was on a small scale both vocally and dramatically, but always with telling effect. Miss Kirsten is a singer who never forgets that Butterfly was a child-bride. She easily won our sympathies with her simplicity, her stage presence, and her fresh buoyant voice. That Miss Kirsten's voice would carry beautifully in such sections as the first-act duet and the "Un bel di" was no surprise. It is a pleasure to note also how solidly she met the vocal demands of the death scene. The D flat at the end of her first entrance was ill-advised, but this was a minor flaw.
Eugenio Fernandi, who replaced Barry Morell, who was indisposed, was in poor voice and sang consistently fiat. He upset the first act through a memory slip. Mario Sereni as Sharpless and Margaret Roggero as Suzuki completed the principals. Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted.
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Madama Butterfly
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, April 16, 1960 Matinee Broadcast
Broadcast Matinee Broadcast
Madama Butterfly (400)
Giacomo Puccini | Luigi Illica/ Giuseppe Giacosa
- Cio-Cio-San
- Dorothy Kirsten
- Pinkerton
- Eugenio Fernandi
- Suzuki
- Margaret Roggero
- Sharpless
- Mario Sereni
- Goro
- Charles Kullman
- Bonze
- Osie Hawkins
- Yamadori
- George Cehanovsky
- Kate Pinkerton
- Joan Wall
- Commissioner
- Roald Reitan
- Registrar
- Kurt Kessler
- Conductor
- Dimitri Mitropoulos
Available for streaming at Met Opera on Demand
Rebroadcast on Sirius Metropolitan Opera Radio
Review 1:
Review of John Ardoin in Musical America
The season's last matinee was distinguished by Dorothy Kirsten's return to the company in Cio-Cio-San. Her portrayal was on a small scale both vocally and dramatically, but always with telling effect. Miss Kirsten is a singer who never forgets that Butterfly was a child-bride. She easily won our sympathies with her simplicity, her stage presence, and her fresh buoyant voice. That Miss Kirsten's voice would carry beautifully in such sections as the first-act duet and the "Un bel di" was no surprise. It is a pleasure to note also how solidly she met the vocal demands of the death scene. The D flat at the end of her first entrance was ill-advised, but this was a minor flaw.
Eugenio Fernandi, who replaced Barry Morell, who was indisposed, was in poor voice and sang consistently fiat. He upset the first act through a memory slip. Mario Sereni as Sharpless and Margaret Roggero as Suzuki completed the principals. Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted.
Search by season: 1959-60
Search by title: Madama Butterfly,
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