Question: Gino Vanelli, was an Italian operatic baritone who had an active international career from 1917 until his retirement in 1955, and made several recordings for HMV and Columbia Records, including complete recordings of which opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa?
Context: "E lucevan le stelle " ("And the stars were shining") is a romantic aria from the third act of Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca", composed in 1900 to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.  It is sung by Mario Cavaradossi (tenor), a painter in love with the singer Tosca, while he waits for his execution on the roof of Castel Sant'Angelo. Gino Vanelli (26 March 1896, Bergamo - 9 April 1969, Monza) was an Italian operatic baritone who had an active international career from 1917 until his retirement in 1955.  He made several recordings for HMV and Columbia Records, including complete recordings of the operas "La boheme", "Pagliacci", and "Madama Butterfly". Carlo Broccardi (1886-1953) was an Italian operatic tenor who had an active international career during the first third of the 20th century.  He notably sang for the first complete recordings of Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto" (1915, the Duke of Mantua) and Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca" (1919, Cavaradossi); both for His Master's Voice.  He also made recordings for the Fonografia Nazionale and Kalliope record labels. "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), when she imagines and performs the return of Pinkerton on a white ship, signalled by a thread of smoke on the far horizon. Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers.  His most famous opera libretti are those for "La Bohème", "Tosca", "Madama Butterfly" and "Andrea Chénier". Gemma Bosini (1890 – 2 February 1982) was an Italian operatic soprano who had an active international performance career from 1909–1930.  She is especially associated with the role of Alice Ford in Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff", a role which she performed more than 400 times on stage during her career.  She is also remembered for being the first soprano to record the role of Mimi in Giacomo Puccini's "La boheme" in 1917.  She also made complete recordings of Gounod's "Faust" and Lehar's "The Merry Widow".  After retiring from performance in 1930, she devoted herself to teaching singing and managing the career of her husband, baritone Mariano Stabile. Tosca (] ) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.  It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900.  The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, "La Tosca", is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy.  It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias. Madama Butterfly (] ; "Madam Butterfly") is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. La bohème (] , ] ) is an opera in four acts, composed by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on "Scènes de la vie de bohème" by Henri Murger.  The world premiere performance of "La bohème" was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio, conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini; its U.S. premiere took place the following year, 1897, in Los Angeles.  Since then, "La bohème" has become part of the standard Italian opera repertory and is one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide. Anselmo Colzani (March 28, 1918, Budrio – March 19, 2006, Milan) was an Italian operatic baritone who had an international opera career from the late 1940s through 1980.  He particularly excelled in the Italian repertory and was most associated with the works of Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini.  He began his career in Italy in 1947 where he quickly became a regular presence at that country's best opera houses, including La Scala.  In the mid-1950s he began appearing at major opera houses throughout Europe and the United States.  In 1960 he joined the roster at the Metropolitan Opera where he spent most of his time through 1978. " Opera News" commented that while his voice may have "lacked the sheer beauty [of other baritones], his performances had an Italianate urgency and forthright thrust that were unique, which established himself as a powerful, striking presence."
Answer: Madama Butterfly