Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Love duet (abridged) - Lisa della Casa, Richard Tucker (1957)

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Giacomo Puccini
Madama Butterfly
Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia ... Vogliatemi bene ... Dolce notte! Quante stelle! (with cuts)
Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) - Lisa della Casa
B. F. Pinkerton - Richard Tucker
CBC Orchestra
Lucio Agostini, conductor
CBC, January 23, 1957

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@daviddiamond670 6 жыл бұрын

Ecstatic Puccini. Tucker has the perfect voice for Pinkerton; the close-ups reveal the almost effortlessness of his vocal production despite its power. Della Casa is lovely as Cio-Cio-San; one doesn't associate her cool voice with Puccini but it captures with near perfection the innocence and passion of a young woman hopelessly in love. Despite the tragic mismatch of the protagonists, in this duet the listener is swept away with these moments of union captured by Puccini's refulgent score. Unforgettable!

@michaeldelos2863 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, he goes up on his words briefly at the beginning and makes up Italian sounding syllables until he can get back on. There were a number of distractions which could have caused this = the conductor was off to the side, and they would have been lucky if there were a TV monitor to catch the beat. Also the cuts were jarring, and may have been imposed at the last minute when it was realized that the duet wouldn't fit "AS IS" in the allotted time slot. della Casa would almost certainly never have sung it in Italian before - only German. But she had the advantage of at least a working knowledge of Italian grammar, being Swiss. Tucker learned all of his roles phonetically, and without a prompter, could only insert nonsense syllables until he figured out where he was. He doesn't bat an eye - a pro to his fingertips. Such solid vocalism. The "Tucker-isms" are in full view - ridiculously trilled r's, shouts in place of notes for emphasis occasionally. Still, who sings like this today?!?

@shicoff1398 2 жыл бұрын

Tucker only sang the role twice at the Met. on tour in 1947, though he hated it, and in fact tried to get out of it, but they had him sing it, he also sang it once or twice in Chicago back then, with a another opera company, but he never rolled his R's later like this in in the 1960's and also later, but here as with the great Martinelli, yes who also often often did roll them in many roles, Tucker rolled his R's also and and so what, he was great. Listen to his 1962 duet with Price from the complete RCA rec. of the 1949 Columbia with Steber , nobody not even later Tucker sang it as passionately as Tucker did in 1949.

@demonstain 4 жыл бұрын

0:25...What on Earth does he sing? 😂

@triciaerimo Жыл бұрын

Pinkerton is American, his Italian shouldn't be perfect! ;)

@shicoff1398 6 ай бұрын

good point but his Italian is very good, accents or not, Italian born friends tell me and I can tell you he was MAGNIFIENT in the house if you like perfection listen to his 1962 rec. of it with Price or the 1949 with Steber he did , Nobody on that one in 1949 sang it with more passion then Tucker did. .

@shicoff1398 6 ай бұрын

The right words I have the score and libretto.