BEL DI, UN

Created on 30/11/2005
Latest update on 26/06/2023

Artist: Rosina Storchio
Author: Giacomo Puccini/Luigi Illica/Giuseppe Giacosa
Year: 1904

As the first Cio-Cio San in Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, based upon a sentimental play by David Belasco. Italian for A Lovely Day.

Covers:

1908:

Rena Vivienne [as One Fine Day]

1914:

Geraldine Farrar

1934:

Philémon Siclone [as Sur la mer calmée in Tintin strip album The Cigars Of The Pharaoh]

1939:

Deanna Durbin [as One Fine Day]

1950:

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

1954:

Maria Callas

1959:

McGuire Sisters

1977:

Electric Light Orchestra [in Rockaria]

1984:

Malcolm McLaren [as Madame Butterfly]

1989:

Mary Hopkin [as One Fine Day]

2003:

Sarah Brightman [as It's A Beautiful Day]

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