Madama Butterfly: “Farewell, flowery refuge”

We’re diving into timeless arias from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly. 

Here’s “Addio, fiorito asil” (“Farewell, flowery refuge”) 

This is Pinkerton’s remorseful farewell to the home he shared with Butterfly, expressing fleeting guilt and sorrow before abandoning her forever. #TimelessArias