Madama Butterfly

By Giacomo Puccini
September 11, 12, 13, 2009
Sung in Italian with English surtitles

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
Based on the play of the same name by David Belasco, which was based on a story by John Luther Long.

Puccini's most famous and ravishing score will fill the opera house and your heart. Madama Butterfly is a tender love story with a tragic ending. A young Japanese geisha falls in love with a young American Lieutenant who abandons her without knowing that she is pregnant. Pinkerton returns three years later, with an American wife on hand. Upon his request, Butterfly selflessly gives him the child. One of the most tragic endings of all time.

Cast

Cio-Cio-San	Jee Hyun Lim
Suzuki	Mika Shigematsu
Lt. Pinkerton	Fernando De La Mora
Sharpless	Louis Ledesma
Goro	Joseph Hu
The Bonze	Matthew Arnold
Yamadori	Chai-wei-Lee
Kate	Crystal Jarrell
Conductor	Enrique Patron de Rueda
Staging Director	John De Lancie