An introduction to-- Puccini : Madama Butterfly

Resource Information

The work An introduction to-- Puccini : Madama Butterfly represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

An introduction to-- Puccini : Madama Butterfly

Title remainder

Madama Butterfly

Statement of responsibility

written by Thomson Smillie

Title variation

• Puccini, Madama Butterfly
• Madama Butterfly

Creator

• Smillie, Thomson

Contributor

• Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924
• Timson, David

Narrator

• Timson, David

Subject

• Operas -- Analysis, appreciation
• Operas -- Excerpts
• Operas -- Stories, plots, etc
• Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924
• Stories, plots, etc
• Streaming audio
• Electronic audio files

Genre

• Stories, plots, etc
• Excerpts
• Electronic audio files
• Streaming audio

Language

• eng
• ita
• eng

Summary

This series introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of major operas. Using the principal themes and arias, taken from the Naxos recording of the complete work, Thomson Smillie is informative yet entertaining, enabling the listener to get more from this remarkable art form. Madama Butterfly runs the gamut of operatic emotions. The title heroine has a fragility wonderfully expressed in her entry music, deep sexual instincts as shown in the love duet, and immense tragic stature in her last hours. The fate of Madama Butterfly - married to an American sailor and then abandoned - engages our emotions, as it obviously did Puccini's to a degree equalled by few other opera heroines. The oriental setting and the exquisite orchestral and choral writings are treasured bonuses

Member of

• Opera explained
• Naxos Music Library

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Additional physical form

Also available as compact disc; previously issued as HNH International NAXOS 8.558049.

Cataloging source

NAXOS

Dewey number

782.1

Form of composition

• operas
• not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Language note

Narrated in English; opera excerpts sung in Italian

LC call number

MT100.P83

LC item number

S65 2007ab

Literary text for sound recordings

other

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Unidentified performers ; David Timson, narrator

Series statement

Opera explained

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable