Maria Callas - “Un Bel Di Vedremo“ - Madame Butterfly, Act II

Maria Callas - Madame Butterfly: Act II; “Un bel dì, vedremo“ Movie scenes - Memoirs of a Geisha, a historical novel by American author Arthur Golden, published in 1997. Maria Callas, soprano. Philharmonia Orchestra, Dir. Tullio Serafin. ___ Madame Butterfly is an opera in three acts (originally two acts) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The libretto of the opera is based in part on the short story “Madame Butterfly“ (1898) by John Luther Long – which in turn was based partially on stories told to Long by his sister Jennie Correll and partially on the semi-autographical 1887 French novel Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti. “Un bel dì vedremo“ (“One fine day we’ll see“) is a soprano aria from the opera Madama Butterfly when she imagines and performs the return of Pinkerton on a white ship, signalled by a thread of smoke on the far horizon. Sound recording - INgrooves / Made In etaly/ [M