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This emotional cinematic adaptation of Madame Butterfly comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The Italian soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. English, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, and Thai subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a making-of featurette. This Columbia/TriStar release has strong picture quality and is highly recommended to anyone with an interest in the source material, as well as those with ...
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Overview

This emotional cinematic adaptation of Madame Butterfly comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The Italian soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. English, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, and Thai subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a making-of featurette. This Columbia/TriStar release has strong picture quality and is highly recommended to anyone with an interest in the source material, as well as those with an interest in films produced outside the Hollywood mainstream.
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Special Features

Digitally mastered audio & anamorphic video; Widescreen presentation; Audio: Italian; Making-of featurette; Subtitles: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai; Interactive menus; Scene selections
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Editorial Reviews

All Movie Guide - Mike Cummings
This 1995 Frédéric Mitterand production of Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly demonstrates the power of film to expand the audiovisual horizons of opera. First, it presents mostly young, attractive singers -- such as 23-year-old Chinese soprano Ying Huan -- in the principal roles instead of the typical aging and often portly singers. Huan's stunning voice and innocent face make her a nearly perfect Cio-Cio San. Second, the film sets the action in a lush, lakeside Tunisian hamlet specially constructed to resemble the setting of the opera, a Japanese town outside Nagasaki. Such an arrangement permits the camera to break free of the stage-bound environment and roam outdoors and indoors, marrying nature with the culture and costumes of 1904 Japan and the splendor of Puccini's music. Third, the film uses technical magic -- acoustics, stereo sound reproduction, period costumes, special effects, careful cinematography, and subtitles -- to take the opera well beyond the limits of the conventional opera stage. Of course, it is the haunting orchestral and vocal melodies that tell the story. As the plot builds to its heartbreaking climax, Huang, tenor Richard Troxell, and the other performers -- mezzo-soprano Ning Liang as Butterfly's servant Suzuki and baritone Richard Cowan as the American consul -- all perform brilliantly. Even opera-haters will love this Madame Butterfly.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 2/26/2002
  • UPC: 043396056701
  • Original Release: 1995

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  • Source: Sony Pictures
  • Region Code: 1
  • Aspect Ratio: Theatre Wide-Screen (1.85.1)
  • Presentation: Wide Screen
  • Sound: Dolby Surround
  • Language: Italiano
  • Time: 2:14:00
  • Format: DVD

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Ying Huang Butterfly
Richard Troxell Pinkerton
Ning Liang Suzuki
Richard Cowan Sharpless
Jing Ma Fan Goro
Huang Yiqun
Nabil Agoun
Abdelazziz Aslen
Lotfi Bahri
Therese Nguyen Ba Hau
Constance Hauman Kate Pinderton
Yo Kuskabe Uncle
Midori Mornet
Christpheren Nomura Prince Yamadori
Santy Norasingh
Yoshi Oida
Miki-Lou Pinard
Kamel Touati
Wahid Touihiri
Salem Zahrouni
Wen-Juan Zhao
Technical Credits
Frederic Mitterrand Director, Screenwriter
Michele Abbe-Vannier Production Designer
Ahmed Baha Eddine Attia Associate Producer
Pierre-Olivier Bardet Producer
Luc Barnier Editor
James Conlon Musical Direction/Supervision
Daniel Toscan du Plantier Producer
William Flageollet Sound/Sound Designer
Christian Gasc Costumes/Costume Designer
Didier Gervais Sound/Sound Designer
Michel Glotz Art Director
Stephanie Granel Sound/Sound Designer
Guy Level Sound/Sound Designer
Thi Loan Nguyen Makeup
Thi Loan Nguyen Makeup
Samsung Nices Associate Producer
Philippe Welt Cinematographer
Daniel Zalay Asst. Director
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Scene Index

Side #1 --
0. Scene Selections
1. Start [1:42]
2. Overture [6:45]
3. Dovunque al Mondo [6:31]
4. Cuanto Cielo [9:58]
5. Viene Amor Mia [13:16]
6. Viene la Sera [3:09]
7. Bimba Dagli Occhi Pieni di Malia [4:10]
8. Vogliatemi Bene [7:37]
9. Un Bel di Vedremo [6:53]
10. Una Nave da Guerra [4:33]
11. Scuoti Quella Fronda di Ciliegio [24:01]
12. Or Vienmi Ad Adornar [2:27]
13. Coro a Bocca Chiusa [5:08]
14. Io So Che Alle Sue Pene/Addio Fiorito Asil [5:15]
15. Con Onor Muore/Tu? Tu? Piccolo Iddio! [3:03]
16. End Credits [5:01]
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Menu

Side #1 --
   Play Movie
   Subtitles
      English
      Spanish/Español
      Portuguese/Português
      Chinese
      Thai
      Subtitles Off
   Making-of Featurette
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  • Posted August 23, 2011

    Worth every penny

    I'll be honest, I was a little skeptical about buying a movie/opera. A movie can never match the experience of a live opera, and I had already seen Butterfly performances twice. But I really loved the story so I bought this DVD. First, Ying Huang is a beautiful Butterfly and a convincing one at that. The music was great, and the scenery was perfect without being over done. A good movie is one you enjoy, and I enjoyed this film.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    Fantastic Film and worth buying!

    This French production of one of opera's finest is magnificent. Every artist's performance, including the chorus, is superb, and all have beautiful voices.

    The locale selected was perfect for the plot. One could imagine he/she was in Nagasaki, Japan.

    And the costumes of both the US Navy personnel and native people left no doubt in which time-period the opera is supposed to take place (early 1900s) and the countries they are from. Every costume is strikingly beautiful.

    The film is in vivid color and is of fine quality. Camera angles are all done so well that nothing of importance in a particular scene is missed: e.g. when Sharpless, who is coming to see Pinkerton at his newly leased home, is asked, true to the libretto, if the climb was difficult. The camera shows him ascending the hill as he approaches the house. That is something that live opera cannot reproduce in such realistic manner.

    Pinkerston's anxiousness to be with his new wife is done with such taste that his boyish way of sneaking a peek, as Cio Cio San's servant helps her with her clothes, is not in any way crude or tasteless and does not reveal any thing children should not see.

    Time and space prevent me from writing on each highlight--this film has many--which I feel merits a review that I must conclude by saying that anyone who will purchase this film will be exceedingly glad they did.

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