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.
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
