“Un bel di” May 11, 2007
Posted by Jeff in Italian, Opera, Renata Scotto, Theater.trackback
Renata Scotto, in her final performance of the role for which she was best-known: as Cio-Cio-San in her own staging of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, at the Arena di Verona in 1987:
The Suzuki is Monica Tagliasacchi.
From twenty years earlier, Scotto’s performance of the aria “Un bel di vedremo”, from the classic recording conducted by John Barbirolli.
Technorati tags: Renata Scotto, Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San, Italian opera, Opera, Arena di Verona
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