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' MADAM BUTTERFLY'

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An opera in two acts
Libretto by Luigl Illica and Giuseppe Giocosa
Music by Puccini
(sung in Italian)
Cho Cho San 's relatives and friends
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson )
Covent Garden Orchestra (Leader, Charles Taylor )
CONDUCTED BY BRYAN BALKWILL
From the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden
(by arrangement with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)
The action takes place at Nagasaki at the beginning of the twentieth century.
ACT 1
Outside a Japanese house on a hill over- looking Nagasaki harbour

Contributors

Unknown:
Luigl Illica
Unknown:
Giuseppe Giocosa
Unknown:
Cho Cho San
Chorus-Master:
Douglas Robinson
Leader:
Charles Taylor
Conducted By:
Bryan Balkwill
Cho Cho San (Madam Butterfly):
Sena Jurinac
Suzuki, her servant:
Josephine Veasey
Lieutenant F B Pinkerton, of the U.S. Navy:
Charles Craig
Sharpless, U S Consul at Nagasaki:
Jess Walters
Goro, a marriage broker:
David Tree
The Imperial Commissioner:
Ronald Firmager
The Official Registrar:
Keith Raggett
The Bonze, Cho Cho San's uncle:
Rhydderch Davies
Prince Yamadori:
David Allen
Kate Pinkerton:
Margreta Elkins
Source: Radio Times

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