* Lieutenant Pinkerton, a character from Madama Butterfly

Bergonzi as Pinkerton from Giacomo Puccini | Puccini's Madama Butterfly.

She began her career as a chorister with the Carl Rosa Opera Company and steadily took on larger roles such as Kate Pinkerton and the lead role of Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly, Micaela in Carmen, Musetta in Puccini's La bohème, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, 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 and Thaïs.

Over the course of writing the album, Cuomo, who had enrolled at Harvard in the fall of 1995, changed his focus from the space rock opera theme of SFTBH to the Madama Butterfly theme of Pinkerton.

She studied at the Berlin Conservatory with Hermann Weissenborn and Gerty König and made her debut as Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Berlin Städtische Oper in 1962.

He made his debut at the Royal Opera House in London, as the Duke in Rigoletto, in 1957, other roles there included: Alfredo in La traviata, Rodolfo in La bohème, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly.

His roles there included Rodolfo from Verdi's Luisa Miller, Don Carlo from Verdi's opera of the same name, Lt. Pinkerton from Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Radames from Verdi's Aida, Calaf from Puccini's Turandot, and Gabriele Adorno from Verdi's Simon Boccanegra.

Pinkerton tells Goro to bring Butterfly to him.

Pinkerton admits to Sharpless that he does not know whether he is really in love or just infatuated, but he is bewitched with Butterfly ’ s innocence, charm and beauty, like a butterfly fluttering around and then landing with silent grace, so beautiful " that I must have her, even though I injure her butterfly wings ".

Sharpless tells Pinkerton that he heard Butterfly speak, when she visited the Consulate, and he asks Pinkerton not to pluck off her delicate wings.

However, Pinkerton tells Sharpless that he will do " no great harm, even if Butterfly falls in love.

" Goro re-enters to tell Pinkerton and Sharpless that Butterfly ’ s friends are coming.

Butterfly greets Pinkerton, who asks about her difficult climb up the hill.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton and Sharpless that her family is from Nagasaki and was once very wealthy.

Meanwhile, Butterfly tells her relatives how much she loves Pinkerton.

Butterfly ’ s relatives say that he ’ s like a king, so rich and so handsome, and then, at a sign from Butterfly, all her friends and relatives bow to Pinkerton and walk out to the garden.

Pinkerton takes Butterfly ’ s hand and leads her into the house.

From her sleeve, Butterfly brings out to show Pinkerton all of her treasures, which include only a few handkerchiefs, a mirror, a sash, and other trinkets.

Goro whispers to Pinkerton that the case contains a " gift " from the Mikado to Butterfly ’ s father, inviting him to commit seppuku.

Butterfly continues to show Pinkerton her other little treasures, including several little statues: " They are the spirits of my ancestors.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton that yesterday, in secret and without telling her uncle, who is a Buddhist priest, the Bonze, she went to the Consulate, where she abandoned her ancestral religion and converted to Pinkerton ’ s religion.

The Commissioner conducts the brief ceremony and witnesses Pinkerton and Butterfly sign the official papers.

Pinkerton, Butterfly and their guests continue the celebration with many toasts.

He stands over Butterfly, shouting his curses at her, when Pinkerton intervenes to stop him.

) Pinkerton tells Butterfly that " All your relatives and all the priests in Japan are not worth the tears from your loving, beautiful eyes.

) Pinkerton tells Butterfly that the " Night is falling ", and Butterfly answers that " with it comes darkness and peace.

Pinkerton watches Butterfly, as she watches him, but her happiness is tempered, as " still the angry voice curses me.

) Pinkerton admires the beautiful Butterfly and tells her, " you have not yet told me that you love me.

That career began in earnest with Del Monaco's debut on December 31, 1940, as Pinkerton at the Puccini Theater in Milan.

* 1904 – Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.

They remained with Puccini for his next three operas and probably his greatest successes: La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly.

The original version of Madama Butterfly, premiered at La Scala on February 17, 1904, was initially greeted with great hostility ( probably largely owing to inadequate rehearsals ).

* Madama Butterfly, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa ( in two acts – premiered at La Scala, 17 February 1904 )

This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci that came virtually to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly.

The Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini used an extract of melody to write the aria " Ovunque al mondo ... ", in 1904 for his work Madama Butterfly.

In 2007, he designed stage and costumes for Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Festival Puccini 2007 in Torre del Lago.

Madama Butterfly (" Madam Butterfly ").

See Madama Butterfly discography.

* 1974: Madama Butterfly, a German television adaptation of the opera starring Mirella Freni and Plácido Domingo, directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.

* 1989: The Broadway and West End musical Miss Saigon was, in part, based on Madama Butterfly.

* 2004: On the 100th anniversary of Madama Butterfly, Shigeaki Saegusa composed Jr. Butterfly to a libretto by Masahiko Shimada.

* 2008: New York City Opera's Live from Lincoln Center telecast of its production of Madama Butterfly, directed by Mark Lamos, wins a Primetime Emmy Award.

Madama Butterfly record insert, 1952.

* OPERA America's Online Learning Course on Puccini's Madama Butterfly

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