Puccini: Madama Butterfly

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.

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  Anna Tomowa-Sintow

  Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)
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  Peter Dvorský

  Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton
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  Richard Stilwell

  Sharpless
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  Elena Zilio

  Suzuki