Sandor Konya Jeannette Piloou Madama Butterfly Metropolitan Opera Photo

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Sandor Konya as Pinkerton, Jeannette Pilou as Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly
Sándor Kónya
(23 September 1923 – 20 May 2002) was a Hungarian tenor, particularly associated with German and Italian roles, especially Lohengrin and Calaf.
Jeannette Pilou
(Greek: Ζανέτ Πηλού) (July 11, 1937 - April 27, 2020) was a Greek operatic soprano.
A native of Alexandria, Pilou was born to Greek parents resident in Egypt. She underwent her initial vocal studies in the country of her birth before traveling to Italy to study under Carla Castellani. In 1959 she made her operatic debut at Milan's Teatro Smeraldo as Violetta. In 1964 she appeared in La bohème at the Vienna State Opera; she soon embarked upon an international career which took her to London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Hannover, Cologne, Genoa, Budapest, Paris, Barcelona, Lisbon, Chicago, New Orleans, Houston, Philadelphia, and Buenos Aires.
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.