COMPOSERS: Puccini
LABELS: C Major
WORKS: Madam Butterfly
PERFORMER: Angeletti, Vestri; Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche/Callegari; dir. Pizzi (Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2010)
CATALOGUE NO: C Major 706208
An unexceptional staging in a bathtub acoustic. Angeletti’s Butterfly is vocally uneven, although passionate, while the conductor and Pinkerton are serviceable. All else is routine. Michael Scott Rohan