Madame Butterfly (1995) - Ancora un passo (One step more). Ying Huang, Richard Troxell

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• Description : Madame Butterfly (1995) Directed by...(more) Frédéric Mitterrand. Ying Huang - Cio-Cio-San (Mme Butterfly) Ancora un passo (One step more). Butterfly can be heard guiding her friends to the top of the hill, jubilantly telling them that Over land and sea, there floats the joyful breath of spring. I am the happiest girl in Japan, or rather in the world. Butterfly and her friends enter the garden. She recognizes Pinkerton and points him out to her friends, and all bow down before him. Gran ventura (May good fortune attend you). Butterfly greets Pinkerton, who asks about her difficult climb up the hill. Butterfly says that, for a happy bride, the wait is even more difficult. Pinkerton thanks her for the compliment but cuts her off as she continues to make others. Butterfly tells Pinkerton and Sharpless that her family is from Nagasaki and was once very wealthy. LImperial Commissario (The Imperial Commissioner). Goro announces the arrival of both the Grand Commissioner and the Registrar of marriages. Butterfly greets her relatives, who have arrived for the wedding. Pinkerton laughs at the sight and whispers to Sharpless, This is a farce: all these will be my new relatives for only a month. Sharpless tells him that, even though he considers the marriage contract a farce, she considers it very real. Meanwhile, Butterfly tells her relatives how much she loves Pinkerton. One of her cousins says that Goro first offered Pinkerton to her, but she said refused. Butterflys relatives say that hes like a king, so rich and so handsome, and then, at a sign from Butterfly, all her friends and relatives bow to Pinkerton and talk out to the garden. Pinkerton takes Butterflys hand and leads her into the house. Vieni, amor mio! (Come, my love!). From her sleeve, Butterfly brings out to show Pinkerton all of her treasures, which include only a few handkerchiefs, a mirror, a sash, and other trinkets. Then she shows him a long, narrow case, which she tells him holds her only sacred treasure, but she cannot open it, because there are too many people around. Goro whispers to Pinkerton that the case contains a gift from the Mikado to Butterflys father, inviting him to commit hara-kiri. Butterfly continues to show Pinkerton her other little treasures, including several little statues: They are the spirits of my ancestors. Iera son salita tutta sola (Yesterday, I went all alone). Butterfly tells Pinkerton that yesterday, in secret and without telling her uncle, who is a Buddhist priest, the Bonze, she went to the Consulate, where she abandoned her ancestral religion and converted to Pinkertons religion. I am following my destiny and, full of humility, bow to Mr. Pinkertons God. Tutti zitti (Quiet everyone). Everything is ready, and Goro tells everyone to be quiet. The Commissioner conducts the brief ceremony and witnesses Pinkerton and Butterfly sign the official papers. Madama Butterfly (Madam Butterfly). The wedding celebration begins, and everyone wishes happiness to the new couple. After a short while, Sharpless pleads with Pinkerton not to be cruel, and he leaves with the Commissioner and the Registrar. Pinkerton, Butterfly and their guests continue the celebration with many toasts. ... Richard Troxell .. B. F. PINKERTON, (Lieutenant, U.S.N) Directed by Frédéric Mitterrand 1995. Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two acts) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" (1898) by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco. Puccini also based it on the novel Madame Chrysanthème (1887) by Pierre Loti. According to American scholar Arthur Groos, the opera was based on events that actually occurred in Nagasaki in the early 1890s. The opera is set in the city of Nagasaki. Japan's best-known opera singer Tamaki Miura won international fame for her performances as Cio-Cio San and her statue, together with that of Puccini, can be found in Nagasaki's Glover Garden. The opera is a staple of the standard operatic repertoire by companies around the world and is the most-performed opera in the United States, where it ranks as Number 1 in Opera America's list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America. (less)