This page lists all recordings of Madama Butterfly: Intermezzo Act II, part 2 ( Sailors' chorus) by Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini.
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Butterfly , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. The scene opens with Gallimard sitting on a couch with Song curled up at his feet. Gallimard explains to his audience how, shortly after beginning their affair, he and Song — who, by that time, he had taken to calling Butterfly — rented an apartment in Beijing where they would meet a few times each week.
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The pose in which Song and Gallimard sit emphasizes their unequal power dynamic: Gallimard calls her Butterfly as a further affirmation of their power dynamic: Femininity and Male Ego. Song is telling Gallimard that Chinese men keep their women down, and that the Communist government in China works to keep its citizens ignorant. She praises Gallimard for his progressive ideas, and tells him how exciting she finds his work, making decisions that shape the world.
The night is falling. Bimba, Bimba, non piangere "Sweetheart, sweetheart, do not weep". This begins the famous long love duet, which ends act 1. Pinkerton tells Butterfly that "All your relatives and all the priests in Japan are not worth the tears from your loving, beautiful eyes.
I will not cry any more. And I do not worry about their curses, because your words sound so sweet. Viene la sera "Night is falling". The long duet continues. Pinkerton tells Butterfly that the "Night is falling", and Butterfly answers that "with it comes darkness and peace. Then Suzuki helps Butterfly dress for her wedding night.
Pinkerton watches Butterfly, as she watches him, but her happiness is tempered, as "still the angry voice curses me. Butterfly is renounced — renounced but happy". Bimba dagli occhi "Sweetheart, with eyes Pinkerton admires the beautiful Butterfly and tells her, "you have not yet told me that you love me. Vogliatemi bene "Love me, please. The long duet concludes. Butterfly pleads with Pinkerton to "Love me, please. Pinkerton admits that it is true but explains, "Do you know why? So that she will not fly away.
As the curtain opens, three years have passed. Suzuki kneels in front of a Buddha, praying that Butterfly will stop crying. Butterfly hears and tells her that the Japanese gods are fat and lazy, and that the American God will answer quickly, if only He knows where they are living. Suzuki tells Butterfly that their money has almost run out and, if Pinkerton does not return quickly, they will suffer in a bad way. Butterfly assures Suzuki that Pinkerton will return, because he took care to arrange for the consul to pay the rent and to fit the house with locks to keep out the mosquitoes, relatives and troubles.
Suzuki tells Butterfly that foreign husbands never return to their Japanese wives, but Butterfly replies furiously that Pinkerton had assured her, on the very last morning they were together, "Oh, Butterfly, my little wife, I shall return with the roses, when the earth is full of joy, when the robin makes his nest. In this, the opera's most famous aria and one of the most popular works in the soprano repertoire , Butterfly says that, "one fine day", they will see a puff of smoke on the far horizon. Then a ship will appear and enter the harbor.
She will not go down to meet him but will wait on the hill for him to come. After a long time, she will see in the far distance a man beginning the walk out of the city and up the hill. When he arrives, he will call "Butterfly" from a distance, but she will not answer, partly for fun and partly not to die from the excitement of the first meeting.
Then he will speak the names he used to call her: Suzuki departs, as Sharpless and Goro arrive in the garden. Sharpless greets her, "Excuse me, Madam Butterfly. Welcome to this American home. At this, Butterfly hears Goro laugh, and she whispers to Sharpless that Goro is a bad man. She tells him that, after Pinkerton left, Goro came to her many times "with presents to palm off this or that husband on me. Yamadori, ancor le pene "Yamadori, are you not yet…". Butterfly sees Yamadori and asks him if he is not going to give up pursuing her, because "You have already had many different wives.
In the meantime, Sharpless gives up trying to read Pinkerton's letter to Butterfly, and he puts the letter back in his pocket. Goro tells Sharpless that Butterfly thinks that she is still married. Butterfly hears this and says, "I do not think I am; I am. She tells Goro that she understands how easy divorce is under Japanese law, "but in America, you cannot do that.
Butterfly turns triumphantly to Suzuki and asks that she serve tea. Yamadori, Sharpless and Goro quietly discuss Butterfly's blindness. Goro whispers that Pinkerton's ship is expected to arrive soon, and Sharpless explains that Pinkerton is too embarrassed to meet Butterfly and has asked Sharpless to handle it. Yamadori, offended, departs with his grand entourage and Goro. Sharpless remains, sits next to Butterfly, and takes the letter out of his pocket once more. Sharpless begins to read Pinkerton's letter to Butterfly: Suzuki, you tell him!
He puts the letter away, muttering to himself, "that devil Pinkerton! Due cose potrei far "Two things I could do". Butterfly cries that, if Pinkerton never returned, she would go back to entertaining people with her songs, or, better, die. Sharpless pleads with her to accept the rich offer from Yamadori.
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Butterfly is upset with Sharpless and instructs Suzuki to show him out. As he begins to leave, Butterfly stops him, apologizes for her anger, and explains that his questions have hurt her "so very, very much! He has forgotten me? Butterfly shows Sharpless her child, and Sharpless asks if Pinkerton knows. The child was born when he was away in his big country. Listen to my sad song, For an unhappy mother, your charity. And Butterfly — oh, horrible destiny — will dance for you! And as she used to do, the Geisha will sing for you. And her joyful, happy song will end in a sob!
Never more to dance! Rather would I cut short my life! Io scendo al piano. Sharpless asks the child his name, and Butterfly answers for him, "Today my name is Sorrow. But write and tell Daddy that, the day he returns, my name will be Joy.
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Offstage, Suzuki can be heard shouting, "Snake. Every day he tells the four winds that no one knows who is the child's father! In a rage, Butterfly runs to the shrine, seizes the dagger and threatens to stab him, "You are lying! Say that again, and I will kill you!
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Suzuki takes the child to the other room. Butterfly replaces the dagger, goes to her son and says, "You will see, my darling, my Sorrow. You will see, your savior will take us far, far away to his land. Il cannone del porto! Just then a cannon shot is heard. Suzuki and Butterfly watch from the hill as the ship enters the harbor and drops anchor.
Then Butterfly sees that the ship is the Abraham Lincoln , and she tells Suzuki, "They were all lying! Only I, who love him. He has returned, and he loves me! The house must be filled with flowers. As the night is full of stars! Suzuki asks, "All the flowers? Or vienmi ad adornar "Now come to adorn me". Finally, Butterfly sits at her dressing table and tells Suzuki, "Now, come and adorn me.
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No, first bring me the child. My uncle, the priest? All so happy at my misery! And Yamadori, with his pursuit? Ridiculed, disgraced, made foolish, the hateful things! Butterfly tells Suzuki that she wants Pinkerton to see her dressed as she was on the first day "and a red poppy in my hair. Coro a bocca chiusa "Humming Chorus". As the off-stage chorus hums a wordless, melancholy tune, Butterfly, her child and Suzuki begin the long wait for Pinkerton to come.
Suzuki and the baby are soon asleep, but Butterfly keeps her vigil. There is no intermission between acts 2 and 3. The action continues without interruption as the "Humming Chorus" ends and morning light appears. Suzuki and the baby are asleep, but Butterfly remains standing and waiting. Distant voices are heard from the bay. Sailors are singing, "Heave-ho! Suzuki awakes and is very sad.
Butterfly tells her that "He will come. Suzuki waits in the front room and hears a knock at the door. Pinkerton and Sharpless have arrived, but Pinkerton tells Suzuki not to wake Butterfly and asks how Butterfly knew that he had arrived. Suzuki tells him that, for the last three years, Butterfly has studied every ship that entered the port. Sharpless tells Pinkerton, "Did I not tell you so? Io so che sue dolore "I know that her pain".
While Pinkerton looks at the flowers, the picture of himself and the room that has remained unchanged for three years, Sharpless tells Suzuki that they can do nothing for Butterfly but that they must help her child. Sharpless tells her that Pinkerton's new wife, Kate, wants to care for the child. Suzuki goes into the garden to meet Pinkerton's new wife, while Sharpless reminds Pinkerton, "I told you, did I not? When she gave you her hand: She has been waiting for you.
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Addio, fiorito asil "Farewell, flowery refuge". Pinkerton says "Farewell, flowery refuge of happiness and of love, her gentle face will always haunt me, torturing me endlessly. Kate is telling Suzuki to assure Butterfly that Kate will look after her child like her own son. From offstage, Butterfly calls for Suzuki and then enters the room. As she enters, Kate retreats to the garden, so that she will not be seen.
She asks Suzuki why she is crying, and then she sees Sharpless and the woman in the garden. She tells Suzuki, "Suzuki, you are so kind. You love me so much. Tell me softly, just 'yes' or 'no' … Is he alive? Butterfly realizes that she must give up her son, and Kate asks her forgiveness. Finally, Butterfly tells Kate, "I will give my child to her only if he comes himself.
In half an hour, come up the hill again. Come una mosca "Like a little fly". Butterfly stands, sees Suzuki and tells her to close up the house, because it is too light and spring-like. Then she orders her to go to the other room where the child is playing. Butterfly then kneels before the statue of Buddha and prays to her ancestral gods.
She rises, takes down her father's knife, kisses the blade, and reads the inscription. Con onor muore "To die with honor". Butterfly reads the inscription on her father's knife: Butterfly's child enters, but Suzuki does not. Butterfly tells her child not to feel sorrow for his mother's desertion but to keep a faint memory of his mother's face.
She bids him farewell, seats him on the floor and blindfolds him gently. She gives him a miniature American flag to wave in greeting to his father, which he does, blindfolded, throughout the following action. Butterfly takes the knife and walks behind the screen. The knife clatters to the floor as Butterfly staggers from behind the screen with a scarf around her neck.
She kisses her child and collapses. From outside, Pinkerton cries, "Butterfly! From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Madame Butterfly disambiguation.