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Glover Garden (グラバー園, Gurabāen) is a park in Nagasaki, Japan, built for Thomas Blake Glover, a Scottish merchant who contributed to the modernization of Japan in shipbuilding, coal mining, and other fields. In it stands the Glover Residence, the oldest Western-style house surviving in Japan and Nagasaki's foremost tourist attraction.
17 February 1904. (1904-02-17) La Scala, Milan. Madama Butterfly (Italian pronunciation: [maˈdaːma ˈbatterflai]; Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther Long, which in ...
Un bel dì, vedremo. " Un bel dì, vedremo " (Italian pronunciation: [um bɛl di veˈdreːmo]; "One fine day we'll see") is a soprano aria from the opera Madama Butterfly (1904) by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung by Cio-Cio San (Butterfly) on stage with Suzuki, as she imagines the return of ...
2017 Broadway revival. Miss Saigon is a sung-through stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini 's 1904 opera Madama Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover.
South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate hit, running for 1,925 performances. The plot is based on James A. Michener 's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific and ...
Grammy Award. María de Montserrat Bibiana Concepción Caballé i Folch[2][3] or Folc[4][5][a] (12 April 1933 – 6 October 2018), known simply as Montserrat Caballé (i Folch), [b] was a Spanish operatic soprano from Catalonia. Widely considered to be one of the best sopranos of the 20th century, [8][9] she won a variety of musical awards ...
Madama Butterfly. discography. This is a partial discography of Madama Butterfly ( Madame Butterfly ), an opera by Giacomo Puccini. The original version of the opera premiered on February 17, 1904, at La Scala in Milan.
Leontyne Price. Mary Violet Leontyne Price (/ liˈɒntiːn, ˈliːəntiːn / lee-ON-teen, LEE-ən-teen; born February 10, 1927) is an American spinto soprano who was the first African-American soprano to receive international acclaim. [1] From 1961 she began a long association with the Metropolitan Opera. She regularly appeared at the world's ...