Added: May 15, 2008
From: 222Opera
Duration: 4:48
Pinkerton has abandoned Butterfly for an American wife named Kate. The lieutenant is stricken with guilt and shame (Pinkerton: "Oh, the bitter fragrance of these flowers!"), but is too much of a coward to tell Butterfly himself. Suzuki, at first violently angry, is finally persuaded to listen as Sharpless assures her that Mrs. Pinkerton will care for the child if Butterfly will give him up. Pinkerton departs. Suzuki brings Butterfly into the room. She is radiant, expecting to find her husband, but is confronted instead by Pinkerton's new wife. As Sharpless watches silently, Kate begs Butterfly's forgiveness and promises to care for her child if she will surrender him to Pinkerton. Butterfly receives the truth with apathetic calmness, politely congratulates her replacement, and asks Kate to tell her husband that he must come in half an hour, and then he may have Sorrow, whose name will then be changed to Joy. She herself will "find peace." She bows her visitors out, and is left alone with young Sorrow. She bids a pathetic farewell to her child (Finale, Butterfly: "You, O beloved idol!"), blindfolds him, and puts a doll and a small American flag in his hands. She takes her father's dagger--the weapon with which he committed suicide--and reads its inscription: "To die with honour, when one can no longer live with honour." She takes the sword and a white scarf behind a screen, and emerges a moment later with the scarf wrapped round her throat. She embraces her child for the last time and sinks to the floor. Pinkerton and Sharpless rush in and discover the dying girl. The lieutenant cries out Butterfly's name in anguish as the curtain falls. Butterfly Tu? tu? tu? tu? tu? tu? tu? (con grande sentimento, affannosamente agitata) piccolo Iddio! Amore, amore mio, fior di giglio e di rosa. (prendendo la testa del bimbo, accostandola a sè) Non saperlo mai per te, pei tuoi puri occhi, (con voce di pianto) muor Butterfly... perché tu possa andar di là dal mare senza che ti rimorda ai di maturi, il materno abbandono. (con esaltazione) O a me, sceso dal trono dell'alto Paradiso, guarda ben fiso, fiso di tua madre la faccia! che ten resti una traccia, guarda ben! Amore, addio! addio! piccolo amor! (con voce fioca) Va, gioca, gioca! Pinkerton (interno) Butterly! Butterfly! Butterfly!
Channel: Music
Tags: butterfly death madama piccolo puccini tu
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