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Notes
- 1 2 Recordings of Madama Butterfly on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
- 1 2 Note: "Cat:" is short for catalogue number by the label company.
- ↑ “Madama Butterfly review – Domingo, Festival Puccini 2004”. classicstoday.com. Retrieved 7 January 2020
- ↑ Madama Butterfly (7 March 2009), Met Opera on Demand.
- ↑ “Summers, Madama Butterfly review – The Met 2011”. classical.net. Retrieved 7 January 2020
- ↑ 2009 Sferisterio Opera Festival video: Blu-ray, OCLC 759381518 , 937825436; DVD, OCLC 751308228.
- ↑ David Patrick Stearns, Review of 2012 Hamburg video, Gramophone, August 2014, pp. 90–91.
- ↑ 2016 La Scala video: Blu-ray, OCLC 1126667132; DVD, OCLC 1201548199.
- ↑ 2017 ROH video: Blu-ray, OCLC 1100422986; DVD, OCLC 1082520521.
- ↑ Nicky Shaw website.
- ↑ 2018 Glyndebourne video: Blu-ray, OCLC 1196034294; DVD, OCLC 1108766563.
- ↑ Madama Butterfly (2022), Royal Opera House Stream
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- Blyth, Alan, ed. Opera on Record. Hutchinson & Co., London. 1979.
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