Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Directed by Rodney Greenberg

Written by David Belasco, John Luther Long

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century in the city of Nagasaki, about a young Japanese woman who weds an American naval officer who later abandons her and the child she bore him.

Cast

Anna Tomowa-Sintow

Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)

Peter Dvorský

Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton

Richard Stilwell

Sharpless

Elena Zilio

Suzuki