Opera title: | Madame Butterfly |
Composer: | Giacomo Antonio Puccini |
Language: | Italian |
Synopsis: | Madame Butterfly Synopsis |
Libretto: | Madame Butterfly Libretto |
Translation(s): | English Deutsch |
Type: | duet |
Role(s): | B. F. Pinkerton / Cio-Cio San |
Voice(s): | Tenor / Soprano |
Act: | 1.13b |
Previous scene: | Stolta paura |
Next scene: | Dolce notte! Quante stelle |
Olga Busuioc and Joshua Guerrero perform 'Vogliatemi bene' from Puccini's Madama Butterfly.
Recorded live at Glyndebourne Opera House, June 2018
Creative team:
Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber / Ben Glassberg
Director: Annilese Miskimmon
Designer: Nicky Shaw
Lighting: Designer Mark Jonathan
Movement Director: Kally Lloyd Jones
Video Designer: Ian William Galloway
Cast includes:
Lieutenant B F Pinkerton: Joshua Guerrero
Goro: Carlo Bosi / François Piolino
Suzuki: Elizabeth DeShong
Sharpless: Michael Sumuel
Cio-Cio-San: Olga Busuioc
The Cousin: Jennifer Witton
Cio-Cio-San’s Mother: Eirlys Myfanwy Davies
Yakuside, Cio-Cio-San’s Uncle: Adam Marsden
The Aunt: Shuna Scott Sendall
Imperial Commissioner: Michael Mofidian
Official Registrar: Jake Muffett
Bonze: Oleg Budaratskiy
Prince Yamadori: Simon Mechlinski
Sorrow: Beatrix Prawanna/Rupert Wade
Kate Pinkerton: Ida Ränzlöv
London Philharmonic Orchestra,
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Notte completa: cioelo purissimo e stellato. Avvicinandosi lentamente a Pinkerton seduto sulla panca nel giardino. Si inginocchia ai piedi di Pinkerton e los guarda con tenerezza, quasi suplichevole.
BUTTERFLY
Vogliatemi bene,
un ben piccolino,
un bene da bambino,
quale a me si conviene.
Vogliatemi bene.
Noi siamo gente avvezza
alle piccole cose
umili e silenziose,
ad una tenerezza
sfiorante e pur profonda
come il ciel, come l'onda del mare!
Full night: that is pure and starry. Slowly approaching Pinkerton sitting on the bench in the garden. He kneels at Pinkerton's feet and looks at him with tenderness, almost supri-compliant.
BUTTERFLY
Please feel good,
a very small child
a child's good,
which one suits me.
Please feel good.
We are good people
to the little things
humble and silent,
to a tenderness
grazing and yet deep
like heaven, like the wave of the sea!
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