Virginia Zeani Madama Butterfly A entrance

Virginia Zeani sings CioCioSan in a performance of Madama Butterfly in La Fenice Venice in 1964. This is from a private cassette recording made by an enthusiast directly from the audience, NB before such procedures were banned!.

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[corellithebest]

Wow! This is FABULOUS! Could you please upload more of this, Yvonne?

[opertutto]

Zeani is one of my favorite Butterflys and this is a treasured excerpt. Thank you, Scala977, for forwarding it to me.

[MultiZahl]

Ein wunderbares  DES !!!!! eine zauberhafte Butterfly -Danke ChalotteinWeimar

[abracadabranque]

Si la prise de son permettait de jouir pleinement de cette belle voix...

[secretfreewolf]

I was in Fenice, with my father and mather, wonderfull ! But is my remember, beuautifull ! now i know the voice thankyou ! Rene'

[paulostroff99]

Stunning! TY.

[basenjidiva]

Zeani's Butterfly is a direct line to the heart-strings! Achingly beautiful!!!

There is a sweet melancholy, inherent in Zeani's voice, which is both intellectually fascinating and emotionally compelling. These, coupled with seemingly limitless agility, range and ability comprise one of the most deliciously formidable and wholly thrilling operatic divas ever to take the stage.

[sospello]

Thank you so much for sending this on to me and to Yvonne for posting. She is superb as Butterfly and it is a thrill to hear an excerpt from this 1964 peformance.