Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Puccini: Madama Butterfly

180 mins | Music | March 30, 2017

Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of dashing American officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage. She lives in hope that one day he will return. Three years later, Cio-Cio-San and her little son see Pinkerton’s ship in the harbour. She excitedly expects his visit – but Pinkerton and his American wife Kate have come only to take the boy away, to raise him in America. Cio-Cio-San bids her son farewell and then takes her own life.

Puccini: Madama Butterfly

180 mins | Music | March 30, 2017

Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of dashing American officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage. She lives in hope that one day he will return. Three years later, Cio-Cio-San and her little son see Pinkerton’s ship in the harbour. She excitedly expects his visit – but Pinkerton and his American wife Kate have come only to take the boy away, to raise him in America. Cio-Cio-San bids her son farewell and then takes her own life.
Producers Royal Opera House
Original title Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Directors Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser
Writers

Cast

Antonio Pappano

as Conductor

Ermonela Jaho

as Cio-Cio-San

Marcelo Puente

as Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton

Scott Hendricks

as Sharpless

Carlo Bosi

as Goro

Elizabeth DeShong

as Suzuki

Jeremy White

as Bonze

Emily Edmonds

as Kate Pinkerton

Gyula Nagy

as Imperial Commissioner

Yuriy Yurchuk

as Prince Yamadori

Sergey Levitin

as Concert Master