Royal Opera House: Madama Butterfly

Overview

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

Conductor

Ermonela Jaho

Cio-Cio-San

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Marcelo Puente

Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton

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Scott Hendricks

Sharpless

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Carlo Bosi

Goro

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Elizabeth DeShong

Suzuki

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Jeremy White

Bonze

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Emily Edmonds

Kate Pinkerton

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Gyula Nagy

Imperial Commissioner

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Yuriy Yurchuk

Prince Yamadori

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Sergey Levitin

Concert Master