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Covent Garden Opera Trust presents Covent Garden Opera in ' MADAM BUTTERFLY'

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on BBC Home Service Basic

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An opera in three acts
Libretto by L. Mica and G. Giacosa
English version by R. H. Elkin
Music by Puccini
Cho Cho San's relatives and friends
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson )
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra
(Leader, Thomas Mathews )
Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite
The action takes place at Nagasaki, at the beginning of the twentieth century
Act 1
Outside a Japanese house on a hill overlooking Nagasaki harbour

Contributors

Unknown:
L. Mica
Unknown:
G. Giacosa
Unknown:
R. H. Elkin
Music By:
Puccini
Chorus-Master:
Douglas Robinson
Leader:
Thomas Mathews
Conducted By:
Warwick Braithwaite
Madam Butterfly (Cho Cho San):
Joan Hammond
Suzuki, her servant:
Monica Sinclair
Kate Pinkerton:
Adele Leigh
Lieut F B Pinkerton of the U S Navy:
James Johnston
Sharpless U S Consul at Nagasaki:
Tom Williams
Goro a marriage broker:
David Tree
Prince Yamadori:
Ernest Davies
The Bonze Cho Cho San's uncle:
Rhydderch Davies
Imperial Commissioner:
Ronald Firmager
Official Registrar:
Hubert Littlewood
Source: Radio Times

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