Daniel Oren, Orchestra e Coro dell'Arena di Verona - Puccini: Madama Butterfly (2004)

Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly – the composer’s selfproclaimed favourite work and certainly one of the most beloved operas in the repertoire – is brought to life at the world-famous Arena di Verona. This opulent production, directed by respected film and opera director Franco Zeffirelli, is sung by a cast of excellent singers. Fiorenza Cedolins is a sought after Butterfly singer and her Pinkerton is performed by the renowned tenor Marcello Giordani. The celebrated operatic baritone Juan Pons gives the principled United States consul Sharpless. The performance is lead by long-established Arena di Verona conductor Daniel Oren with all the splendour that a Puccini opera demands. The sum of all this is a gloriously sung musical experience.

Cast:
Cio-Cio-San - Fiorenza Cedolins
Suzuki - Francesca Franci
B.F. Pinkerton - Marcello Giordani
Kate Pinkerton - Mina Blum
Sharpless - Juan Pons
Goro - Carlo Bosi
Il pricipe Yamadori - Alessandro Battiato
Lo zio Bonzo - Carlo Striuli
Il commissario imperale - Angelo Nardinocchi
L'ufficiale del registro - Giovanni Scordino
La madre di Cio-Cio-San - Veronica Simeoni
La cugina di Cio-Cio-San - Maria Letizia Grosselli
Orchestra e Coro dell'Arena di Verona
Conductor - Daniel Oren