#madama butterfly

[oeuvrinarydurian]

Good afternoon, delightful Tumblr people. It’s a gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous weekend in upstate New York in the Catskills. I’ve had Morse on the brain all weekend. Between writing that little vignette, and trying to explain to my mother why the show is so amazing, and our season seven project, I’ve been talking a lot and thinking a lot about his various life stages and iterations. It made me think of the very very very beginning. This scene never fails to move me. There’s so much emotion in it, and yet he isn’t even shot from the front. We barely see an entire profile. And of course, his eye roll…it says so much. it’s hard to believe this was supposed to be a one off, and he’d never played the character before. It’s just remarkable. The music is everything here too.

[maythegnome]

Thinking bout them <3

Peak character design tbh

[ripeteeth]

I’m losing my mind. there’s a particular scene at the end of the met opera’s 2024 production of madama butterfly that I DESPERATELY want to find, but there’s absolutely zero images of it. God, it’s the final scene and it’s from Anthony Minghella’s staging and it’s STRIKING and beautiful and I want to look at it forever

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube, Part 2

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1973 (Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, Kiri Te Kanawa, Benjamin Luxon; conducted by John Pritchard; English subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1976 (Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Tokyo National Theatre, 1980 (Hermann Prey, Lucia Popp, Gundula Janowitz, Bernd Weikl; conducted by Karl Böhm; Japanese subtitles)

Théâtre du Châtelet, 1993 (Bryn Terfel, Alison Hagley, Hillevi Martinpelto, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; Italian subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt; conducted by Bernard Haitink; English subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 1996 (Carlos Chaussón, Isabel Rey, Eva Mei, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Berlin State Opera, 2005 (Lauri Vasar, Anna Prohaska, Dorothea Röschmann, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo; conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; French subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Röschmann, Bo Skovhus; conducted by Nikolas Harnoncourt; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Teatro all Scala, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Diana Damrau, Marcella Orasatti Talamanca, Pietro Spagnoli; conducted by Gérard Korsten; English and Italian subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2015 (Adam Plachetka, Martina Janková, Anett Fritsch, Luca Pisaroni; conducted by Dan Ettinger; no subtitles)

Tosca

Carmine Gallone studio film, 1956 (Franca Duval dubbed by Maria Caniglia, Franco Corelli, Afro Poli dubbed by Giangiacomo Guelfi; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Gianfranco de Bosio film, 1976 (Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1978 (Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, Cornell MacNeil; conducted by James Conlon; no subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 1984 (Eva Marton, Jaume Aragall, Ingvar Wixell; conducted by Daniel Oren; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2004 (Daniela Dessí, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi; conducted by Maurizio Benini; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2011 (Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles)

Finnish National Opera, 2018 (Ausrinė Stundytė, Andrea Carè, Tuomas Pursio; conducted by Patrick Fournillier; English subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala 2019 (Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli, Luca Salsi; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Hungarian subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Marco Armiliato; English subtitles)

Ópera de las Palmas, 2024 (Erika Grimaldi, Piotr Beczala, George Gagnidze; conducted by Ramón Tebar; no subtitles)

Don Giovanni

Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Lisa della Casa; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler; English subtitles)

Giacomo Vaccari studio film, 1960 (Mario Petri, Sesto Bruscantini, Teresa Stich-Randall, Leyla Gencer; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; no subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1987 (Samuel Ramey, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Julia Varady; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1987 (Thomas Allen, Claudio Desderi, Edita Gruberova, Ann Murray; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Peter Sellars studio film, 1990 (Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry, Dominique Labelle, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; conducted by Craig Smith; English subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, 1997 (Simon Keenlyside, Bryn Terfel, Carmela Remigio, Anna Caterina Antonacci; conducted by Claudio Abbado; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Zürich Opera, 2000 (Rodney Gilfry, László Polgár, Isabel Rey, Cecilia Bartoli; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2002 (Peter Mattei, Gilles Cachemaille, Alexandra Deshorties, Mirielle Delunsch; conducted by Daniel Harding; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2006 (Carlos Álvarez, Lorenzo Regazzo, Maria Bayo, Sonia Ganassi; conducted by Victor Pablo Pérez; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2017 (Philippe Sly, Nahuel de Pierro, Eleonora Burratto, Isabel Leonard; conducted by Jérémie Rohrer; English subtitles)

Madama Butterfly

Mario Lanfranchi studio film, 1956 (Anna Moffo, Renato Cioni; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1974 (Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

New York City Opera, 1982 (Judith Haddon, Jerry Hadley; conducted by Christopher Keene; English subtitles)

Frédéric Mitterand film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2004 (Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Daniel Oren; Spanish subtitles)

Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2009 (Raffaela Angeletti, Massimiliano Pisapia; conducted by Daniele Callegari; no subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2017 (Maria José Siri, Murat Karahan; conducted by Jonathan Darlington; no subtitles)

Wichita Grand Opera, 2017 (Yunnie Park, Kirk Dougherty; conducted by Martin Mazik; English subtitles)

Teatro San Carlo, 2019 (Evgenia Muraveva, Saimir Pirgu; conducted by Gabriele Ferro; no subtitles)

Rennes Opera House, 2022 (Karah Son, Angelo Villari; conducted by Rudolf Piehlmayer; French subtitles)

[scanzen]

Puccini: Pillangókisasszony

1963, Qualiton, Hungary.

Cover art: Varga Győző

[fatherdollface]

Bayo Bayo baby I love you ain’t that crazy?

[mxsinistarrrr]

Queen B

[arya48]

Couple of bayonetta fanarts I made a while back.

[elaine-of-shalott-blog]

John Galliano for Dior, Haute Couture, Spring 2007. Madama Butterfly collection.

Make-up artist: Dame Pat McGrath

Headgears: Stephen Jones

[dankzombiereviews]

bayonetta & madama butterfly by Huy Huynh

please go support the original artist!

[gayonetta95]

Bayonetta 3: Madama Butterfly Mistress Of Atrocity

[the-tenth-arcanum]

(inspired by a tag by @verdibaritones)

[angelbeast111]

I gathered up as many of what my friends + partner would put on a pumpkin as I could and drew them!!! For spooky month!!! Lots of sillies, as you can see

[princesssarisa]

Giacomo Puccini famously called the heroines of his operas "little women" (piccole donne). With that in mind, I can't help but think of Little Women and speculate about which Puccini heroine each March sister would like and relate to the most.

Here's what I think:

Meg: Madame Butterfly.

Now of course Meg is never as naïve as Cio-Cio-San, or worshipfully devoted to a good-for-nothing cad. But both she and Cio-Cio-San are loyal to their man even if it means estrangement from family (although in Meg's case, it's just Aunt March, and she relents before long), and both become mothers who love their children enormously. Both are gentle yet strong-willed too, and live in genteel poverty, yet maintain their elegance and dignity.

Jo: Minnie in La Fanciulla del West.

One of Puccini's slightly lesser-known heroines, but a memorable one all the same. Feisty, tomboyish, no-nonsense, sometimes hot-tempered, yet warm, nurturing, and romantic at heart, and good at handling and educating a large number of males (Jo's schoolboys, Minnie's miners).

Beth: Mimí in La Bohéme.

This is obvious. Sweet, gentle, shy, chronically ill, takes great pleasure in simple things, loves to sew, is easy to overlook but adored by the people who know her, and sadly dies young of her illness.

Amy: Manon Lescaut.

Blonde-haired, popular, fond of beauty, elegance, Paris, wealth, and high society, yet a loving, non-shallow person at heart. Of course Amy is no gold digger, but she almost gives in to the temptation to be one... maybe Manon is who she could have been if she had.

@littlewomenpodcast. @thatscarletflycatcher, @fandomsarefamily1966, @joandfriedrich, @tuttocenere, @supercantaloupe

[ginnungagay]

SURPRISE more bayo pixel stuff

[sleepyfaequeen]

Bayonetta Headcanons

Madama Butterfly:

You're protected by a well known demon from the Inferno world. She always has her eyes on you, making sure you don't end up getting hurt or worse.

She wants to one day fuse with you, just to see how it feels to be within your body. It's the idea of being closer to you that makes her grin with delight.

If Bayonetta ever summons her out and you're there be prepared for this giant demon to blow you a kiss or show off her very explicit dance moves. Bayonetta is aware and finds it rather cute that Madama Butterfly happens to like such a small Umbra like you.

Alraune:

She never thought she could love something like you. You were an Umbra witch so youd honestly make a good meal. So when it was starting to get obvious that you've ignited her heart with fire- she'd punish those with her thorns.

She one day wants to grab you with her thorns and feed you a drop of her ecstacy straight from the thorns from her body. She always wonders what sort of faces you'd make if she held you a little tighter.

Absolutely, hates the idea of Madama Butterfly being near you. She has been her enemy within Inferno for centuries. A foolish hatred others would call but she believed she was powerful enough to hate this demon.

Baal Zebul:

She is a celebrity to all Inferno so she was rather appalled she found someone like you. An Umbra with no identity but she thinks you're the cutest thing in existence. She doesn't feel nervous when she sings in front of you but she always asks what you think of her performance.

One day, she would like you to attend one of her concerts and listen to her voice. She also hopes that you'll sing with her as a duo and share that spotlight no matter where you two are in Inferno.

Really doesn't like seeing you upset and if you ever do get upset she will turn into her frog form and cuddle you're chest. If not, she will simply knelt down and hug you until you're no longer sad.