This is a partial discography of Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), an opera by Giacomo Puccini. The original version of the opera premiered on February 17, 1904, at La Scala in Milan.

Audio recordings

Year Cast
(Cio-Cio San, Pinkerton,
Suzuki, Sharpless)		 Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra		 Label[1][2]
1921 Ottavia Giordano,
Santo Santonocito,
Ginevra Amato,
Adolfo Pacini		 Carlo Sabajno
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus		 LP: Società Nazionale del Grammofono
Cat: S 5410-5434
1929 Rosetta Pampanini,
Alessandro Granda,
Conchita Velasquez,
Gino Vanelli		 Lorenzo Molajoli
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus		 LP: Columbia
Cat: D 14530-43
CD: Arkadia
Cat: 78041
1929-30 Margaret Burke Sheridan,
Lionello Cecil,
Ida Mannarini,
Vittorio Weinberg		 Carlo Sabajno
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus		 LP: HMV
Cat: S 10190-205
CD: Romophone
Cat: 89001-2
Arkadia, Cat: 78030
1939 Toti Dal Monte,
Beniamino Gigli,
Vittoria Palombini,
Mario Basiola		 Oliviero De Fabritiis
Teatro Reale dell'Opera di Roma orchestra and chorus		 LP: HMV
DB 3859-3874
CD: EMI CHS
Cat: 7 69990-2
1948Eleanor Steber,
Jan Peerce,
Suzanne Carré,
Richard Bonelli		Eugene Ormandy
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and chorus		CD: VAI
Cat: VAIA 1220
1949Eleanor Steber,
Richard Tucker,
Jean Madeira,
Giuseppe Valdengo		Max Rudolf
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus		LP: Columbia Records
Cat: 13011D -13026D
CD: Sony
Cat: MH2K 62765
1951Renata Tebaldi,
Giuseppe Campora,
Nell Rankin,
Giovanni Inghilleri		Alberto Erede
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra and chorus		LP: Decca
Cat: LXT 2638-2640
CD: Naxos Historical
Cat: 8.110254-55
1953Clara Petrella,
Ferruccio Tagliavini,
Mafalda Masini,
Giuseppe Taddei		Angelo Questa
RAI National Symphony Orchestra and chorus		LP: Cetra
Cat: OLPC1248/1-3
CD: Warner-Fonit
Cat: 0927-43551-2
1954 Victoria de los Ángeles,
Giuseppe Di Stefano,
Anna Maria Canali,
Tito Gobbi		 Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Teatro Reale dell'Opera di Roma orchestra and chorus		 LP: HMV
cat: ALP 1215-1217
CD: Naxos Historical
Cat: 8.111291-92
1955 Maria Callas,
Nicolai Gedda,
Lucia Danieli,
Mario Borriello		 Herbert von Karajan
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus		 LP: Columbia
Cat: 33CX 1296-1298
CD: Naxos Historical
Cat: 8.111026-27
1956 Dorothy Kirsten,
Daniele Barioni,
Mildred Miller,
Clifford Harvuot		 Dimitri Mitropoulos
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus		 LP: Metropolitan Opera Record Club
Cat: MO 722
CD: Living Stage
Cat: LS 1038
1957Anna Moffo,
Cesare Valletti,
Rosalind Elias,
Renato Cesari		Erich Leinsdorf
Teatro Reale dell'Opera di Roma orchestra and chorus		LP: RCA Victrola
Cat: VICS 6100
CD: RCA Victor
Cat: 4145-2
1958 Renata Tebaldi,
Carlo Bergonzi,
Fiorenza Cossotto,
Enzo Sordello		 Tullio Serafin
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra and chorus		 LP: Decca
Cat: LXT 5468-5470
CD: Decca
Cat: 470 577-2
1959 Victoria de los Ángeles,
Jussi Björling,
Miriam Pirazzini,
Mario Sereni		 Gabriele Santini
Teatro Reale dell'Opera di Roma orchestra and chorus		 LP: HMV
Cat: ALP 1795-1797
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 414446-5
1962 Leontyne Price,
Richard Tucker,
Rosalind Elias,
Philip Maero		 Erich Leinsdorf
RCA Italiana Orchestra and chorus		 LP: RCA Victor
Cat: LSC 6160
CD: RCA Victor
Cat: 09026 68884-2
1966 Renata Scotto,
Carlo Bergonzi,
Anna di Stasio,
Rolando Panerai		 John Barbirolli
Teatro Reale dell'Opera di Roma orchestra and chorus		 LP: HMV
Cat: SAN 184-186
CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 3.67720-2
1974 Mirella Freni,
Luciano Pavarotti,
Christa Ludwig,
Robert Kerns		 Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus		 CD: Decca
Cat: 417 577-2
1976 Montserrat Caballé,
Bernabé Martí,
Silvana Mazzieri,
Franco Bordoni		 Armando Gatto
Gran Teatre del Liceu orchestra and chorus		 LP: Decca
Cat: D68DR 3
1977 Renata Scotto,
Plácido Domingo,
Gillian Knight,
Ingvar Wixell		 Lorin Maazel
Philharmonia Orchestra
Ambrosian Opera Chorus		 CD: Sony Classical
Cat: SM2K 91135
1987 Mirella Freni,
José Carreras,
Teresa Berganza,
Juan Pons		 Giuseppe Sinopoli
Philharmonia Orchestra
Ambrosian Opera Chorus		 LP: Deutsche Grammophon
423 567-1
CD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 423 567-2
1991Miriam Gauci,
Yordy Ramiro,
Nelly Boschkowá,
Georg Tichy		Alexander Rahbari
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Slovak Philharmonic chorus		CD: Naxos
Cat: 8.660015-16
1997Svetlana Katchour,
Bruce Rankin,
Fredrika Brillemburg,
Heikki Kilpelainen		Günter Neuhold
Bremer Philharmoniker Staatsorchester
Bremer Theater chorus (Original 1904 version)		CD: Naxos
Cat: 8.660078-79
2008Angela Gheorghiu,
Jonas Kaufmann,
Enkelejda Shkosa,
Fabio Capitanucci		Antonio Pappano
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra and chorus		CD: EMI Classics
Cat: 2641872

Video recordings

Year Cast
(Cio-Cio San, Pinkerton,
Suzuki, Sharpless)		 Conductor,
Opera house and orchestra		 Label[1][2]
1956Anna Moffo,
Renato Cioni,
Miti Truccato Pace,
Afro Poli		Oliviero De Fabritiis
RAI Milano orchestra and chorus		DVD: VAI
Cat: VAI 4284
1974Mirella Freni,
Plácido Domingo,
Christa Ludwig,
Robert Kerns		Herbert von Karajan
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna State Opera chorus		DVD: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 073 4037
1986Yasuko Hayashi,
Peter Dvorský,
Hak-Nam Kim,
Giorgio Zancanaro		Lorin Maazel
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus		DVD: Arthaus
Cat: 100 110
2004Daniela Dessì,
Fabio Armiliato,
Rossana Rinaldi,
Juan Pons		Plácido Domingo
Festival Puccini at Torre del Lago
Città Lirica orchestra and chorus		DVD/CD: Dynamic
Cat: 33457
Cat: CDS 599[3]
2011Patricia Racette,
Marcello Giordani,
Maria Zifchak,
Greg Fedderly		Patrick Summers
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus		DVD: Sony Classical
Cat: 88697-80662-9 [4]
2019Riccardo Chailly
Teatro alla Scala orchestra and chorus		DVD/Blu ray: Decca
Cat: 100 110

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 Recordings of Madama Butterfly on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
  2. 1 2 Note: "Cat:" is short for catalogue number by the label company.
  3. ↑ “Madama Butterfly review – Domingo, Festival Puccini 2004”. classicstoday.com. Retrieved 7 January 2020
  4. ↑ “Summers, Madama Butterfly review – The Met 2011”. classical.net. Retrieved 7 January 2020

Sources

  • Blyth, Alan, ed. Opera on Record. Hutchinson & Co., London. 1979.
  • Gruber, Paul, ed. The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera. W.W. Norton & Co., New York. 1993.
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