{"product_id":"tebaldi-puccini-madama-butterfly-1951-paco183","title":"TEBALDI Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1951) - PACO183","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ePUCCINI \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eMadama Butterfly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recording, 1951\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 2hr 10:52\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eRenata Tebaldi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (soprano) - Madama Butterfly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eGiuseppe Campora\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (tenor) - Pinkerton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eNell Rankin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (mezzo-soprano) - Suzuki\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eGiovanni Inghilleri\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e (baritone) - Sharpless\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eSanta Cecilia Academy Chorus \u0026amp; Orchestra\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eAlberto Erede\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACO183.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eLa Bohème\u003c\/em\u003e\n, which Decca have so successfully recorded, is an opera which depends\non a first-rate ensemble, but \u003cem\u003eMadama Butterfly\u003c\/em\u003e first and\nforemost depends on the artist who sings the name part. Let it be said\nat once that Renata Tebaldi is not merely a good but a great exponent\nof the part. She is by far the best Butterfly I have heard since\nDestinn, than which there can be no higher praise. As in Decca’s \u003cem\u003eBohème\u003c\/em\u003e there is not a weak member of the cast and the opera\nhas been produced with the same care for realistic detail. We do hear\nButterfly and her relatives and friends approaching from the distance\nand ever coming nearer, so that the exquisite theme on the violins has\nits full effect; we do hear, in the last act, that Butterfly has\ncarried her sleeping child off-stage and her high B natural reaches us \u003cem\u003epianissimo\u003c\/em\u003e (not \u003cem\u003efortissimo\u003c\/em\u003e as lately heard at Covent\nGarden!). Knocks on the door, dramatic points in this opera, are given\nas required by the score, and altogether there is the vivid effect of a\nstage performance.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\nThe recording of the voices is remarkably good and Tebaldi’s soprano comes\nover without distortion even at the most climatic moments. The one\ndisappointment, as in \u003cem\u003eBohème\u003c\/em\u003e, is the recording of the fine\norchestral playing. It is not just a matter of being faint but of lacking\nbloom and volume. In this matter alone the old H.M.V. set is better, but so\nsuperb is Tebaldi that the recording of the orchestra soon ceased to worry\nme. Guiseppe Campora has a very pleasant voice and gives such a sympathetic\nrendering of his part that one almost forgets what a cad Pinkerton was. His\nphrasing and variety of tone are admirable.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\nInghilleri is much better cast as Sharpless than he was as Marcel and he\nsings very well all through. I have heard the parts of Suzuki and Goro\nbetter characterised, but Nell Rankin and Piero de Palma, if not\nimaginative, are entirely adequate.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\nTebaldi avoids the archness that lies in wait for singers of her part while\nsuggesting the girlishness of Butterfly—until tragedy overwhelms her and\nshe takes on a new stature. The passage leading up to \u003cem\u003eUn bel di\u003c\/em\u003e is\nexquisitely done, the artist showing here, as in the last cadence of the\nFlower Duet, the section of the love-duet beginning \u003cem\u003eVogliatemi bene\u003c\/em\u003e (with violin solo) and the lullaby in the last act\nthat she has a real command of \u003cem\u003emezza-voce\u003c\/em\u003e: and she sings \u003cem\u003eUn bel di\u003c\/em\u003e naturally and without any straining after effect. There\nis no sense of strain in the aria \u003cem\u003eChe tu madre\u003c\/em\u003e, which tries many\nartists, but real drama with a generous pouring out of the voice, as again\nin the wonderful passage after the canon shot in the harbour. In the final\ntragic scene, which is almost unbearably poignant, Tebaldi drew tears from\nthis apparently case-hardened reviewer.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\nAs the opera ended I felt a new admiration for a score I have always loved\nand much gratitude to Decca for giving us a great performance by Tebaldi\nand worthy ones by everyone else.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\nIt should be noted that Erede, while insisting on the faithful observance\nof Puccini’s directions, gives the singers that due latitude which\nToscanini denied them in the recent recording of \u003cem\u003eLa Traviata\u003c\/em\u003e. If\nsucceeding operas (I eagerly await \u003cem\u003eManon Lescaut, Il Tabarro \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Gianni Schicchi\u003c\/em\u003e, to say nothing of \u003cem\u003eOtello\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFalstaff\u003c\/em\u003e) can be as well cast and produced as \u003cem\u003eLa Bohème\u003c\/em\u003e\nand \u003cem\u003eMadama Butterfly\u003c\/em\u003e then the outlook is favourable indeed.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"margin-left: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA. R.\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Gramophone\u003c\/i\u003e, Feburary 1952\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the success and critical acclaim given to our XR-remastered\n1950's studio opera recordings featuring Maria Callas, it seems only\nnatural that we also turn our attention to her great \"rival\", and thus\nthe classic Decca recordings of Renate Tebaldi. Decca were generally\nregarded as producing the better sounding recordings of the day, and\ncertainly their operatic output by the end of the decade was in a class\nof its own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut at the start of the 1950s, a time when recordings\nwere still being made for 78rpm release as well as LP, and recording\ntape was still very much an infant technology, things were not quite\nthere yet. This is where Pristine's XR remastering can make a huge\ndifference to the sound quality over regular transfers as heard on the\nvarious issues available elsewhere. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarlier this year we began this series with \u003ci\u003eLa Bohème (PACO179)\u003c\/i\u003e, the first of two operas recorded in Rome in July 1951 - this \u003ci\u003eMadama Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e was the second production of that summer, keeping the same production team, orchestra, conductor and star and carrying over some of the cast. Thus was a pattern set for Tebladi and Decca, who returned the following summer to record two more operas, and would continue to do so for several of the years that followed - albeit not in 1953, and not always in leading roles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMadama Butterfly\u003c\/i\u003e was the first of Renata Tebaldi's Decca recordings to be remade in stereo, a mere seven years after this production, with a different cast and conductor. Opinions will of course differ as two which is the better performance - we hope that the sonic upgrade offered here by this Pristine XR remaster will at help the earlier recording stand alongside the  audio standards of the later version, albeit with Ambient Stereo rather than full stereo reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003ePUCCINI \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003eMadama Butterfly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCD One\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eACT ONE\u003cbr\u003e1. E soffitto...e pareti  (2:16)\u003cbr\u003e2. Questa è la cameriera  (4:01)\u003cbr\u003e3. Dovunque al mondo  (3:32)\u003cbr\u003e4. Quale amania vi prende!  (3:30)\u003cbr\u003e5. Ah! Ah! quanto cielo!  (3:13)\u003cbr\u003e6. Gran ventura  (3:39)\u003cbr\u003e7. L'imperial Commissario  (2:13)\u003cbr\u003e8. Vieni, amor mio!  (2:27)\u003cbr\u003e9. Ieri son salita tutta sola  (4:27)\u003cbr\u003e10. Ed eccoci in famigila  (5:29)\u003cbr\u003e11. Viene la sera  (3:21)\u003cbr\u003e12. Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia  (3:12)\u003cbr\u003e13. Vogliatemi bene, un bene piccolino  (6:58)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT TWO\u003cbr\u003e14. E izaghi e Izanami  (7:09)\u003cbr\u003e15. Un bel di vedremo  (4:47)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCD Two\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT TWO continued\u003cbr\u003e1. C'è Entrate  (3:12)\u003cbr\u003e2. Non lo sapete insomma  (1:49)\u003cbr\u003e3. A voi però giurerei fede costante  (3:17)\u003cbr\u003e4. Or a noi  (5:52)\u003cbr\u003e5. E questo e questo  (2:19)\u003cbr\u003e6. Che tua madre dovrà  (2:52)\u003cbr\u003e7. Io scendo al piano  (1:50)\u003cbr\u003e8. Vespa! Rospo maledetto!  (1:49)\u003cbr\u003e9. Una nave da guerra  (2:30)\u003cbr\u003e10. Scuoti quella fronda di ciliegio  (4:51)\u003cbr\u003e11. Or vienmi ad adornar  (4:57)\u003cbr\u003e12. Coro a bocca chiusa  (2:53)\u003cbr\u003e13. Oh eh! Oh eh! Oh eh!  (7:07)\u003cbr\u003e14. Già il sole!  (2:03)\u003cbr\u003e15. Povera Butterfly!  (2:45)\u003cbr\u003e16. Io so che alle sue ...Oh! l'amara fragranza  (3:36)\u003cbr\u003e17. Addio, fiorito  (1:41)\u003cbr\u003e18. Gllielo dirai...Premetto  (2:01)\u003cbr\u003e19. Che vuol da me  (5:07)\u003cbr\u003e20. Come una mosca prigioniera  (2:42)\u003cbr\u003e21. 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