Opera Warhorses

This year marks the 50th anniversary of my first performance of Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly”. The San Francisco Opera performance was held on the first of November at San Diego’s Fox Theatre and starred Dorothy Kirsten in the title role, Margaret Roggero as Suzuki, Giuseppe Campora as Pinkerton and Louis Quilico as Sharpless.
Kirsten, the lyric soprano [...]

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