MADAMA BUTTERFLY - DVD-2004-PUCCINI-PLACIDO DOMINGO

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• Release Year: 1974
• Genre: Music
• Plot: The pathos of this heart-rending story about a sweet-natured Japanese girl and the caddish American naval lieutenant who marries then deserts her has seldom been conveyed with such emotional directness. In his sumptuous filming of Puccini's opera, director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle uses an array of cinematic effects (including a memorable dream sequence) to evoke the protagonists' irreconciliably separate lives and worlds. As Butterfly, Mirella Freni is unbearably moving in one of the finest performances of her career, while Placido Domingo makes Lt. Pinkerton a more sympathetic figure than usual.
• Cast: Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, Robert Kerns, Michel Sénéchal, Giorgio Stendoro, Marius Rintzler, Elke Schary, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica, David Belasco, Jean-Louis Martinoty
• Director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
• Runtime: 2:25
• Company: Deutsche Grammophon
• Media Format: Movie