DVDs:

	Puccini - Madame Butterfly / Huang, Troxell Ying Huang, Richard Troxell Sony Pictures, 2002 average customer review:based on 60 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Ying Huang: Cio-Cio-San
Richard Troxell: Pinkerton
Ning Liang: Suzuki
Richard Cowan: Sharpless
Jing Ma Fan: Goro
Christopheren Nòmura: Prince Yamadori
Constance Hauman: Kate Pinkerton

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Madame Butterfly

Puccini - Madame Butterfly / Huang, Troxell I absolutely enjoyed watching this beautiful production. Having this DVD will allow me to watch it over and over. I highly recommend this.


Outstanding production.

Asin BOOOOF39MA6.
This is an outstanding video. To take excellent singers from Asia and America made sense in this opera .Ying Huang was very convincing as Butterfly, she is a very sensitive singer and actress as well as Richard Troxell as Pinkerton especially the transformation of his character from the first act and the third. The rest of the cast was excellent, very beautiful scenery and very good sound..
I found some of the Japanese's scenes from the beginning of the century in the opening of the third act with the intermezzo music to be gorgeous .I am very glad to have selected this DVD among all selections that I had.

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my favorite "beginners" opera

This delightful DVD has helped me win over a few opera converts. I found it to be visually pleasing and simplistic which in my opinion is a plus. Also Huang brings authenticity to a role so commonly filed with...less believable leads...Not to mention her voice! A must for those new to the opera community, or those wishing to introduce it to others.


Beautiful story, great film !

Beautiful story. The performance is excellent. Don't miss this classic dramatic opera presented as a film. Bravo !!


Butterfly, The Movie

I've seen Butterfly at San Francisco, Lyric Opera of Chicago and at numerous other venues, so it's an opera whose nuances I think I know pretty well. I cannot imagine any performance that I've ever seen of any opera that didn't have something I wished had been done differently, but picking apart this presentation really is difficult. OK, the 'floating relatives' were a little too Hollywood, but the close-ups, setting, costumes, acting and, yes, singing were truly sublime. I have several other performances on both CD and DVD, but in all fairness, none of them take you as deeply into the love affair between Butterfly & Pinkerton as this one does. Really, the only thing I've seen lately that approaches the intimacy of such a performance is the Met broadcasts live in theatres. If you only buy one Butterfly DVD, make it this one. In fact, I'd almost say if you've never been to an opera before, start here. It's really that good.

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