Richards & Zhang Butterfly Love Duet Part1 (Stereo)

[UglowD]

Liping Zhang's excellent new recital disc has just been released on EMI, with arias from Donizetti, Puccini and Verdi and is a wonderful description of the wide range of roles that this artist can sing besides Cio-Cio-San. She has sung Lucia in Covent Garden and Berlin, Mimi in Covent Garden, Norway and Detroit and Gilda in Parma, where the Italians went mad for her! She is also a very fine Micaela - very fragile but with a strong heart and voice!

You can order the album online or in shops.

[BettySantoro]

Canuck, Opera is strict, its not songs, there aria's and there sung in tempo and never changed to support the singer.

[chickawoman2]

Andrew, I loved this... Your voice sounds different, fuller richer to me.. Wow...

Miss u, love U... hugs to the kids please.

Chickenlegs

[Canuckoperafan]

There is a CUT to the score right at 0:46! Why??? Especially with these two excellent singers. Liping Zhang is a very fine Cio Cio San.

[TenorTaper]

Why? Because of some ensemble issues between singers/pit, I chose to cut them out out of respect for all. Very happy you enjoyed.

[Canuckoperafan]

Thanks for your reply! I misunderstood - I thought it was a cut in the performance. I have since watched the other segments of the Butterfly, and I did notice that the orchestra and the singers were not always together. The conducting could have been a bit more flexible to support the singers...