Joel Hill wrote:
>I remember a number of years ago that the Florida State University Music
>Department did Madama Butterfly on 2 successive nights. One night in
>Italian and one in English. ...
Chandos has recently released an English version of Butterfly as well.
>Knowing the libretto almost by heart, it was a real split-personality
>evening. I kept hoping he would throw at least a few words in Italian,
>but he stuck strictly to English.
Now that I'm listening to both the English and Italian versions, I find
myself breaking into sound-like Italian while the English version is on,
and mumbling in English to the Italian version.
Mitch Friedfeld