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Title:
Madame Butterfly [DVD video]
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Publication Date:
2002
Publication Information:
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c2002.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9780767857758
Abstract:
An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl known as Butterfly and marries her, with no intention of ever taking her home to America.
General Note:
Closed-captioned.
Title from disc surface.
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica from the play of David Belasco, based on the novel of John Luther Long.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1995.
Special features: making-of featurette.
Performers:
Ying Huang (Madame Butterfly), Richard Troxell (Pinkerton), Ning Liang (Suzuki), Richard Cowan (Sharpless), Jing Ma Fan (Goro), Christopheren Nomura (Prince Yamadori), Constance Hauman (Kate Pinkerton), Edmund Zelotes Toliver (Imperial Commissioner, The Bonze), Catherine Napoli (Cio-Cio San's cousin), Laurence Monteyrol (Cio-Cio San's mother), Asayo Otsuka (Cio-Cio San's aunt), Richard Tronc (Yakusidé), Chœurs de Radio France, Orchestre de Paris, James Conlon, conductor.
Subject Term:
Language:
Italian
Additional Language:
Sung in Italian with English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai subtitles; credits in French.
Audience:
Canadian Home Video rating: PG.
