Madame Butterfly

Resource Information

The work Madame Butterfly represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Yuma County Library District. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Madame Butterfly

Statement of responsibility

Martin Scorsese presents [a] Sony Classical [film] ; Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Pierre-Olivier Bardet présentent une production Erato Films, Idéale Audience en coproduction avec Imalyre - VTCOM France Télécom, France 3 Cinéma, Sony Classical ; un film de Frédéric Mitterrand

Creator

• Madame Butterfly (Motion picture : 1995)

Contributor

• Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
• Conlon, James, 1950-
• Cowan, Richard
• Fan, Jing Ma
• Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906
• Hauman, Constance
• Huang, Ying, soprano
• Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919
• Liang, Ning, 1957-
• Mitterrand, Frédéric
• Monteyrol, Laurence
• Napoli, Catherine
• Nomura, Christopheren
• Otsuka, Asayo
• Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924
• Toliver, Edmund Zelotes
• Tronc, Richard
• Troxell, Richard
• British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service
• Erato Films
• France 3 cinéma (Firm)
• Idéale Audience International
• Orchestre de Paris
• Radio-France, Chœurs
• S4C (Firm)
• Studio Canal+

Conductor

• Conlon, James, 1950-

Librettist

• Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919
• Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906

Subject

• Operas
• Video recording for the hearing impaired
• Music videos

Genre

• Music videos
• Video recording for the hearing impaired

Language

• ita
• fre
• eng
• por
• spa
• ita
• ita

Summary

An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl known as Butterfly and marries her, with no intention of ever taking her home to America

Cataloging source

JED

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Philippe Welt ; editor, Luc Barnier

Dewey number

782.1/078

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

• Sung in Italian with English subtitles; credits in French
• Closed captioned

LC call number

M1500.P84

LC item number

M33 2002

PerformerNote

Ying Huang (Madame Butterfly), Richard Troxell (Pinkerton), Ning Liang (Suzuki), Richard Cowan (Sharpless), Jing Ma Fan (Goro), Christopheren Nomura (Prince Yamadori), Constance Hauman (Kate Pinkerton), Edmund Zelotes Toliver (Imperial Commissioner, The Bonze), Catherine Napoli (Cio-Cio San's cousin), Laurence Monteyrol (Cio-Cio San's mother), Asayo Otsuka (Cio-Cio San's aunt), Richard Tronc (Yakusidé), Chœurs de Radio France, Orchestre de Paris, James Conlon, conductor

Runtime

129

Target audience

general

Technique

live action