Word: madama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reuth-but then, the European festivals do not offer beer, hot dogs and wild animals to patrons bored with La Traviata and Rigoletto. Besides, where else could one hear Gladys Swarthout and Rise Stevens break in their Carmens, see Jeanette MacDonald in Faust, catch James Melton in his first Madama Butterfly, or stroll into a Rigoletto and hear Jan Peerce and Robert Weede making their professional debuts...
...responsible for the transformation is Stage Director Frank Corsaro, 43, who believes that operatic tradition is often nothing more than a catalogue of yesterday's clichés. As he showed with his productions of La Traviata and Madama Butterfly, Corsaro is a determined spoiler when he confronts the creaking plots of traditional opera. If he wants to bring on familiar characters at unexpected moments, he does so. If he decides to invent minor characters, he does that...
...PUCCINI: MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Angel). Although nicknamed "Madama Butterball" by her more pernickety listeners, Renata Scotto still does her best to fulfill the image of the 15-year-old Japanese teenager, and has successfully made the role one of her specialties. Her rather metallic intonations are warmed by the richness of Rolando Panerai's baritone and Carlo Bergonzi's tenor, while Conductor Sir John Barbirolli exposes enough colors in the opera's palette to prove that it may not be so smart to sneer at Puccini's musicality...
...Caballé was enrolled in Barcelona's Conservatorio del Liceo at nine, worked as a seamstress to pay for her tuition, graduated at 23 with every honor in sight. Wed last year in the Montserrat monastery to Spanish Tenor Bernabé Martí, whom she met while singing Madama Butterfly in Barcelona, she says, "I am probably the only Cio-Cio-San who ever married her Pinkerton...
Bing's Gospel. In addition to Susannah, the repertory for the company's first 37-week season includes such standards as Carmen, Madama Butterfly and Cinderella. In all, the singers will perform a total of 250 times, rotating roles...