Credits:

Herbert Von Karajan

Description:

≪Set in Nagasaki, "Madama Butterfly" is Puccini's masterpiece that incorporates Japanese folk songs and the American national anthem. Karajan ideally recreates the pure musicality latent in the drama of exoticism and sentimentality from this work, which is prone to sentimentalism, with the best casting, including Frényi and Domingo. Poner, a masterful performer, is brimming with ideas and has created a fantastical world of images with rich expressive techniques, including scenes that seem outlandish, such as the appearance of a monk and an oddly stylized Japanese house. (C)RS