SHEILA WORMER & CO: "Sharpless Letter Duet" Part One & "Yamadori Scene" in MADAMA BUTERFLY

SHEILA WORMER as Cio-Cio San sings the "Shapless Letter Duet" Part One and "Yamadori Scene in Puccini's "MADAMA BUTTERFLY", with GEORGE MALDONADO as Sharples, LOUIS ESPOSITO as Goro, MARK FREIMAN as Yamadori, and HELEN VAN TINE as Suzuki. Ms. Wormer has performed over 50 roles in opera, operetta, musicals and plays including Butterfly,Mimi and Musetta ["LA BOHEME"], Tosca ["TOSCA"], Magnolia ["SHOW BOAT"], Kathie ["THE STUDENT PRINCE"], and Lizzie ["110 IN THE SHADE"]. She has appeared with such companies as Cleveland Opera, Columbia Artists National Tours, Salzburg Music Festival, Tampa Bay Opera, and M&M American Dance Theatre. Films include the Independent release of "Every Vote Counts" which received First Prize in the 2004 Philadelphia Film Festival and First Prize in the Monte Carlo Festival [Satelite Division] that same year. Sheila is featured soloists on the film soundtrack for "Every Vote Counts" and can also be heard on numerous musical theatre and opera recordings. Most recently, Sheila Wormer is playing to SRO crowds on tour in her acclaimed one woman show "I FENG-SHUI-ED MY SUITCASE: a life in song", which Variety praised as "A touch of class, without a flaw!" "MADAMA BUTTERFLY" (aka "MADAME BUTTERFLY"] is an opera in 3 acts composed by Giacomo Puccini with libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based this opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long which was dramatized by David Belasco, and on the novel "Madame Chrysantheme" by Pierre Loti. According to one scholar, the opera was based on events that actually occurred in Nagasake in the early 1890s. The original version of the opera was in 2 acts and premiered on Feb. 17, 194 at La Scala in Milan and was poorly received. Puccini revised it, splitting the second act into 2 acts and making other changes. On May 28, 1904 this version was performed in Brescia and was a huge success.

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