Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Anna Tomowa-Sintow Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)

Peter Dvorský Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton

Richard Stilwell Sharpless

Elena Zilio Suzuki