Word: madama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happened so fast. One minute Madama Butterfly was on the Gramophone, Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills was on the reading table, the pretty Gibson Girl you had seen in a magazine was on your mind. You wondered if you wanted to see Maude Adams in her return engagement as Peter Pan. Or perhaps brave the odors and chatter of the nickelodeon to catch that spunky new girl--her name, unpublicized at the time, was Mary Pickford--people were talking about in Ramona...
This tale of a troubled fisherman's fatal encounter with the bigoted residents of his seaside village is told with emotion and all-encompassing humanity by Britain's foremost composer. RUNNERS-UP Wozzeck by Alban Berg; Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini...
...Madama Butterfly, Puccini 21 Don Giovanni, Mozart 16 La Boheme, Puccini 15 Rigoletto, Verdi 12 Aida, Verdi 11 La Traviata, Verdi 11 Carmen, Bizet 9 Cosi Fan Tutte, Mozart 9 Die Fledermaus, Strauss 9 Die Zauberflote, Mozart...
...David Letterman. Her summer schedule includes pledge-drive appearances on public-TV stations across the country and a June 14 benefit performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington that President Clinton was expected to attend (she has already sung for the Pope). Her dream, she says, is to sing Madama Butterfly at La Scala, and she's just about the right age for it. Puccini's doomed heroine was 15 years old; Church...
...director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle led to her 1986 European debut at Venice's Teatro la Fenice, and her work is now seen regularly at London's Covent Garden and Paris' Bastille Opera, as well as in such American cities as Houston, where her joltingly fresh takes on Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Britten's Billy Budd opened back to back in January...