Chris Gaines

With plot notes and study translation.

Safe within their cocoons, butterflies only become vulnerable when they emerge to enchant the world with their beauty. Madame Butterfly has been breaking hearts for over a century with its tragic tale...

Italian/English. Translated by Gutman.

The Vocal Score for Il Tabarro, the one-act Opera by Giacomo Puccini. With a libretto by Giuseppe Adami, Il Tabarro is the first of three operas that make up Puccini'striptych. Along with 'Suor Angeli...

BEL DÌ VEDREMO (un), da 'Madama Butterfly' (soprano) Puccini, Giacomo

Soli TB, Org (Armo) Sprache: lateinisch In 'Vexilla Regis prodeunt' von Venantius Fortunatus (Bischof von Poitiers im 6. Jahrhundert) ist der Text von einer der wichtigsten Hymnen der katholischen Lit...

Puccini's 'La Boheme' is based on Henri Murger's novel Scènes de la vie de bohème, which draws it's inspiration from the Bohemian lifestyle which was somewhat in vogue in Paris at the time. This Libre...

In 'Tosca', Puccini explored the dark side of human emotion, a marked change from the late-Romantic sentimentality of 'La Boheme'. Also in contrast to 'La Bohème' where the villain was fate and so the...