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And whereas nine years ago Racette told author Eric Myers that she had no operatic niche, having staked out an eclectic repertoire that ran the gamut from La Traviata to Tobias Picker's Emmeline, she has lately come to regard two iconic Puccini heroines, Tosca and Cio Cio San, a.k.a.

Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Soprano Patricia Racette Talks About Tosca as Washington National Opera Launches its Fall Season Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2011

And whereas nine years ago Racette told author Eric Myers that she had no operatic niche, having staked out an eclectic repertoire that ran the gamut from La Traviata to Tobias Picker's Emmeline, she has lately come to regard two iconic Puccini heroines, Tosca and Cio Cio San, a.k.a.

Susan Dormady Eisenberg: Soprano Patricia Racette Talks About Tosca as Washington National Opera Launches its Fall Season Susan Dormady Eisenberg 2011

As Cio-Cio-San, Kelly Kaduce brings an amber-tinted soprano, particularly rich at mid-register, to her deeply felt, dramatically satisfying interpretation.

Rodney Punt: Madame Butterfly Takes Wing in Santa Fe Rodney Punt 2010

To bolster her central case, Ms. Kawaguchi points to the suicide of Cio-Cio-San, the Japanese woman spurned by her married American lover at the end of David Belasco 's 1900 play "Madame Butterfly" which inspired Puccini' s opera.

A Haunting Woman Roland Kelts 2010

As Cio-Cio-San, Kelly Kaduce brings an amber-tinted soprano, particularly rich at mid-register, to her deeply felt, dramatically satisfying interpretation.

Rodney Punt: Madame Butterfly Takes Wing in Santa Fe 2010

(Now the down side to the Sirius radio broadcasts: after hearing repeated botched Cio-Cio Sans, is it possible to think about Desdemona without a significant element of dread?)

And now for something 2007

(Now the down side to the Sirius radio broadcasts: after hearing repeated botched Cio-Cio Sans, is it possible to think about Desdemona without a significant element of dread?)

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

Cio' e' stato preceduto da un weekend abbastanza piacevole, durante il quale ho guardato ancora rugby nelle 6 Nazioni, soffrendo per il comportamento dell'Italia e dell'Inghilterra - meglio stendere un velo pietoso - e mi sono lanciata in un vortice di cucina che e' risultato in 6 Tupperware di cibo.

Sometimes work happens Ra 2009

Cio' e' stato preceduto da un weekend abbastanza piacevole, durante il quale ho guardato ancora rugby nelle 6 Nazioni, soffrendo per il comportamento dell'Italia e dell'Inghilterra - meglio stendere un velo pietoso - e mi sono lanciata in un vortice di cucina che e' risultato in 6 Tupperware di cibo.

Archive 2009-02-01 Ra 2009

He returns to Japan with his new American wife, and Cio-Cio-San realizes that she's been abandoned and kills herself.

Archive 2008-03-01 Bardiac 2008