Giuseppe De Luca
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Giuseppe De Luca, was an Italian baritone who achieved his greatest triumphs at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He notably created roles in the world premieres of two operas by Giacomo Puccin
De Luca in 1929
Giuseppe de Luca in 1917
Madama Butterfly
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Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The Schickling catalog number is SC 74.
Giuseppe De Luca
…triumphs at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. He notably created roles in the world premieres of two operas by Giacomo Puccini: Sharpless in Madama Butterfly (at La Scala, Milan, 1904) and the title role in Gianni Schicchi (Metropolitan Opera, 1918). De Luca was born on Christmas Day, 25 December 1876 in…
Original 1904 poster by Adolfo Hohenstein
Solomiya Krushelnytska as Butterfly (c. 1904).
Set design by Bailly and Jambon for Act I in the 1906 production
Butterfly and her son 'Trouble' (Dolore) in 1917