Ying Huang: "Con onor muore" (Madame Butterfly)

The powerfully emotional finale of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly" with Chinese soprano Ying Huang as Cio-Cio San and Richard Troxell as Lieutenant Pinkerton. This is from the 1995 film directed by Frédéric Mitterrand.

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Film & Animation

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• Huang Ying
• Ying Huang
• Richard Troxell
• Frédéric Mitterrand
• Con onor muore
• Madame Butterfly
• opera
• Romanic
• Giacomo Puccini
• Cio-Cio San
• Japan
• Pinkerton
• America
• film

[parodycreator25]

wait. Buttefly's child was blonde and blue-eyed, thats why he remembered Butterfly to Pinkerton. Im confused.

[SsteinwayS]

@parodycreator25 I think they were going for something genetically realistic? If a Japanese former geisha and an American guy had a baby, I think the Asian genes would be slightly more dominant over blonde hair and blue eyes? It's a movie version anyway...the visual aspect at least has to be believable so that's probably why I'm thinking?

[parodycreator25]

@SsteinwayS yeah that's right . I remember in somewhere during the opera, im not sure, that "sorrow" remebers Pinkerton to Butterfly, but yeah genetically talking asian traits are slightly more dominant than "american" traits. but the kid is cute and thats all that matters now for me :D

[SsteinwayS]

@parodycreator25 lol it is a cute kid! But exotic operas in the 19th century weren't exactly historically/politically correct, but whatever!  The music is to die for...literally!

[SsteinwayS]

@parodycreator25 Cute kid anyway... :P

[vivelhistoire]

Her voice and Callas' are the only ones that I truly enjoy hearing... (and to a certain extent Freni and Netrebko) All the others seem to me painful and unnatural.

[SsteinwayS]

@vivelhistoire So many singers sound weird in Puccini...but a few make it sparkle no other! :)

[SsteinwayS]

It suits the role of Butterfly perfectly, and the acting is SUPERB! But yes, she's no Puccini artist for sure. She has said herself in previous interviews before (like the ones I've posted) that she has a light colouratura voice better suited to Mozart and Rossini. But wow! This is still amazing, and her acting and singing suit the music and role perfectly! I'm glad she was selected for this film. She really embodies Butterfly's naivety and vulnerability...that's why it's so convincing!

[arpeggio1358]

@SsteinwayS, i've seen this film in its entirety. I greatly admire Ying Huang's performance as Cio-Cio San. Troxell left me a bit cold as his Pinkerton is such a complete heel that it's impossible to see him as a man who just doesn't understand Japanese custom. Richard Cowan, though, is the finest Sharpless ever. He sees the tragedy coming and is powerless to stop it.

[RiceBunny14]

What a tragic love story

[kagasaki6]

Beautiful, emotive, and o so heart wrenching.

[naty5552]

oooh Me dejó mal el final xD,llore la primera vez que lo vi! T-T

[COCOONFABULA]

this just tore my heart apart

[japanbuta]

@kunsukeR

Haha, that's right.

[hmro1978]

et a la france aussi pour F. Mitterrand