Met Opera: Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly
by Giacomo Puccini
Anthony Minghella’s breathtakingly beautiful and powerfully dramatic production returns, with Amanda Echalaz making her Met debut as Cio-Cio-San. Rising tenor Bryan Hymel sings Pinkerton.
Conductor: Philippe Auguin
CAST:
Cio-Cio-San: Amanda Echalaz
Suzuki: Elizabeth DeShong
Pinkerton: Bryan Hymel
Sharpless: Scott Hendricks
Start time: 10:00 AM on Capital Public Radio.
Approximate running time 3 hrs. 15 min.
1:31 p.m.
Carl Orff
Carmina Burana (excerpts)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Andre Previn, conductor Barbara Bonney, soprano; Frank Lopardo, tenor; Vienna Boys' Choir; Arnold Schoenberg Choir
1:55 p.m.
Nino Rota
8 1/2 (music from the film)
Orchestra of La Scala, Milan; Riccardo Muti, conductor
2:02 p.m.
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Quartet for clarinet and strings in Eb major S 78/WoO 5
L'Archibudelli Charles Neidich, clarinet
2:28 p.m.
Tomaso Albinoni
Concerto No. 1 a cinque for strings in D major Opus 7
I Musici
2:33 p.m.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 15 in Bb major K 450 (FROM THE RUSSELL KLETZING COLLECTION)
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Neville Marriner, conductor Alfred Brendel, piano