[Met Performance] CID:184830



Madama Butterfly
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, April 16, 1960 Matinee Broadcast
Broadcast Matinee Broadcast





Madama Butterfly (400)
Giacomo Puccini | Luigi Illica/ Giuseppe Giacosa
Cio-Cio-San
Dorothy Kirsten

Pinkerton
Eugenio Fernandi

Suzuki
Margaret Roggero

Sharpless
Mario Sereni

Goro
Charles Kullman

Bonze
Osie Hawkins

Yamadori
George Cehanovsky

Kate Pinkerton
Joan Wall

Commissioner
Roald Reitan

Registrar
Kurt Kessler


Conductor
Dimitri Mitropoulos





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Review 1:

Review of John Ardoin in Musical America
The season's last matinee was distinguished by Dorothy Kirsten's return to the company in Cio-Cio-San. Her portrayal was on a small scale both vocally and dramatically, but always with telling effect. Miss Kirsten is a singer who never forgets that Butterfly was a child-bride. She easily won our sympathies with her simplicity, her stage presence, and her fresh buoyant voice. That Miss Kirsten's voice would carry beautifully in such sections as the first-act duet and the "Un bel di" was no surprise. It is a pleasure to note also how solidly she met the vocal demands of the death scene. The D flat at the end of her first entrance was ill-advised, but this was a minor flaw.

Eugenio Fernandi, who replaced Barry Morell, who was indisposed, was in poor voice and sang consistently fiat. He upset the first act through a memory slip. Mario Sereni as Sharpless and Margaret Roggero as Suzuki completed the principals. Dimitri Mitropoulos conducted.

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