COMPOSERS: Puccini
LABELS: Sony
WORKS: Madam Butterfly
PERFORMER: Racette, Giordani; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus & Ballet/Summers; dir. Minghella (Met, 2009)
CATALOGUE NO: 88697806629
Minghella’s ENO production looks colourful at the Met. Giordano’s debonair Pinkerton outclasses Racette’s emotionally unconvincing Butterfly. Michael Scott Rohan