Addio fiorito asil

A rarity: Franco Corelli sings Pinkerton’s farewell to the little house where he and Cio-Cio-San were briefly happy together: “Addio fiorito asil” from Puccini’s MADAMA BUTTERFLY.

“Farewell, flowery refuge
of happiness and love!
I shall always be tortured
by the thought of her sweet face.
Farewell, flowery refuge:
here where she waited for me..
Ah, my remorse I cannot bear.
I must go, how I despise myself!
Farewell…
I must flee…I am vile…I despise myself!”