[Sirius Satellite Radio, 25 September 2006]
Metropolitan Opera Radio launches on SIRIUS with a LIVE broadcast of the Metís gala performance of Madama Butterfly, conducted by Music Director James Levine and directed by Academy AwardÆ-winning film director Anthony Minghella. Singing her signature role for the first time at the Met, Chilean soprano Cristina Gallardo-Dom‚s stars as the doomed Cio-Cio-San. The marvelous tenor Marcello Giordani is the unfaithful Pinkerton, and exceptional baritone Dwayne Croft sings the sympathetic role of Sharpless.