Un bel dì vedremo on McLaren's album of the same year, "Fans". "Un bel dì vedremo" occurs in Act II in both the original and the revised version. The Italian text here below is taken from the very first version of the libretto (17 February 1904) as reconstructed by Julian Smith. Un bel dì vedremo "" ("One fine day we'll see") is a soprano aria from the opera "Madama Butterfly" (1904) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung by Cio-Cio San/Madama Butterfly (on stage with Suzuki), as she imagines the return of her absent love, Pinkerton.
Un giorno di regno was written may account for some of the uneven quality some critics have noted. With regard to the recitatives, Gossett notes that "only his youthful comic opera, "Un giorno di regno" (1840), uses secco recitative. Notes Cited sources Other sources Un giorno di regno Un giorno di regno, ossia Il finto Stanislao ("A One-Day Reign, or The Pretend Stanislaus", but often translated into English as "King for a Day") is an operatic "melodramma giocoso" in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto written in 1818 by Felice Romani. Originally written for the Bohemian composer Adalbert Gyrowetz the libretto