Madame Butterfly (1954 film)

Madame Butterfly
Italian film poster
ItalianMadama Butterfly
Directed byCarmine Gallone
Screenplay by
  • Carmine Gallone
  • Iwao Mori[1]
Based onMadama Butterfly
(1904 opera)
by Giacomo Puccini
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyClaude Renoir[1]
Edited byNiccolò Lazzari[1]
Music byGiacomo Puccini[1]
Production
companies
Distributed by
    • Dear Film (Italy)
    • Toho (Japan)
Release dates
  • 29 December 1954 (1954-12-29) (Italy)
  • 3 June 1955 (1955-06-03) (Japan)
Running time
81 minutes[2]
Countries
LanguageItalian

Madame Butterfly (Italian: Madama Butterfly) is a 1954 musical film directed by Carmine Gallone, based on the 1904 opera Madama Butterfly with music by Giacomo Puccini and libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It stars Kaoru Yachigusa, Nicola Filacuridi, and Michiko Tanaka, with their singing voices dubbed by professional opera singers.[3] The film was an international co-produciton between Italian producer Angelo Rizzoli and Japanese studio Toho.

Cast

Role Voice type Actor Singing voice
Cio-cio-san soprano Kaoru Yachigusa Orietta Moscucci[4]
Pinkerton tenor Nicola Filacuridi Giuseppe Campora
Suzuki mezzo-soprano Michiko Tanaka Anna Maria Canale
Sharpless baritone Ferdinando Lidonni
Goro tenor Kiyoshi Takagi Paolo Carloni
Bonze tenor Yoshio Kosugi Plinio Clabassi
Yamadori tenor Tetsu Nakamura Adelio Zagonara
Kate Pinkerton mezzo-soprano Josephine Corry Maria Marcangeli

Production

Madame Butterfly was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome between October and December 1954.[1]

Release

Madame Butterfly was distributed theatrically in Japan on 3 June 1955.[1] It was released in the United States by I.F.E. in Italian with English subtitles on 23 April 1956.[1] It was reissued in 1970 by Cinemation Industries.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Galbraith IV 2008, p. 111.
  2. ^ Galbraith IV 2008, p. 108.
  3. ^ Goble 1999, p. 291.
  4. ^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese. p. 213.

Bibliography

  • Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1461673743.
  • Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter.
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