’Madame Butterfly’ - Pinkerton’s Aria and Butterfly’s Entrance - Richard Troxell and Ying Huang

From Act 1 of Puccini’s ’Madame Butterfly’ we hear Pinkerton’s aria “Dovunqe al mondo“ followed by the Entrance of Butterfly. This scene comes from the 1995 film of the opera directed by Frederic Mitterand, with Ying Huang as Butterfly, Richard Troxell as Lieutenant Pinkerton, Richard Cowan as the American Consul at Nagazaki, and Jing Ma Fan as Goro the marriage broker. “All over the world,“ sings Pinkerton, “the Yankee wanders on business and pleasure ... He does what he pleases wherever he goes, so I’m