Monday Morgan, thank you for letting me act as DJ for a week!
Leontyne Price, one of my favorite singers (and I hope one of yours, too) sings Death of Butterfly (from Puccini’s Madama Butterfly) as an encore. This video of a live performance has a glitch in it towards the end, but I think the rest of the performance makes the glitch well-worth overlooking.
Leontyne Price-Death of Butterfly. Rare private film.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL-delzX4QI&list=RDYL-delzX4QI&inde...
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Puccini
Song of the Day for February 22 – 28, 2021
Monday Recordare from Verdi’s Requiem Martina Arroyo, soprano and Oralia Dominguez, mezzo-soprano. (4:13)
Recall, merciful Jesus,
that I was the reason for your journey:
do not destroy me on that day.
In seeking me, you sat down wearily;
enduring the Cross, you redeemed me:
do not let these pains to have been in vain.
Just Judge of punishment:
give me the gift of redemption
before the day of reckoning.
Tuesday Un bel di vedremo – from Puccini’s Madama Butterf...
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