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Madama Butterfly

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Puccini's opera, in the recent recording conducted by GIUSEPPE SINOPOLI , with Mirella Freni as Cio-Cio-San (Madam Butterfly), the naive Japanese girl, and Jose Carreras as Lt Pinkerton, the American Navy officer who cruelly deceives her. (baritone) (tenor) (bass)(soprano) (tenor) (baSS)
AMBROSIAN OPERA CHORUS
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
3.00* Act 2

Contributors

Conducted By:
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Unknown:
Jose Carreras
Suzuki:
Teresa Berganza
Sharpless, US Consul at Nagasaki:
Juan Pons
Goro, a marriage broker:
Anthony Laclura
Bonze:
Kurt Rydl
Kate Pinkerton, Pinkerton's American wife:
Marianna Rorholm
Prince Yamadori:
Mark Curtis
Imperial Commissioner:
Hidenori Komatsu
Source: Radio Times

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