The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly

The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly

146 mins | March 7, 2009

Anthony Minghella’s stunning production of Puccini’s opera opened the Met’s 2006–07 season and was seen by thousands of people around the world as part of the company’s Live in HD series. Patricia Racette is Cio-Cio-San, the trusting and innocent young geisha of the title, who disastrously falls in love with American Navy lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton (Marcello Giordani), only to be abandoned by him. Maria Zifchak is her loyal servant Suzuki and Dwayne Croft is Sharpless, the sympathetic American consul who does all he can but is unable to avert tragedy. Performance Date Mar 7, 2009

The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly

146 mins | March 7, 2009

The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly
Anthony Minghella’s stunning production of Puccini’s opera opened the Met’s 2006–07 season and was seen by thousands of people around the world as part of the company’s Live in HD series. Patricia Racette is Cio-Cio-San, the trusting and innocent young geisha of the title, who disastrously falls in love with American Navy lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton (Marcello Giordani), only to be abandoned by him. Maria Zifchak is her loyal servant Suzuki and Dwayne Croft is Sharpless, the sympathetic American consul who does all he can but is unable to avert tragedy. Performance Date Mar 7, 2009
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Original title The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly
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Cast

Patricia Racette

as Cio-Cio-San

Marcello Giordani

as Pinkerton

Greg Fedderly

as Goro

Maria Zifchak

as Suzuki

Dwayne Croft

as Sharpless

Laura Fries

as Cousin

Linda Mays

as Mother

Stephen Paynter

as Uncle Yakuside

Jean Braham

as Aunt

Keith Miller

as Imperial Commissioner

Christian Jeong

as The Registrar

Dean Peterson

as The Bonze

David Won

as Yamadori

Edyta Kulczak

as Kate Pinkerton