The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly
07/03/2009
Anthony Minghella’s stunning production of Puccini’s opera opened the Met’s 2006–07 season and was seen by thousands of people around the world as part of the company’s Live in HD series. Patricia Racette is Cio-Cio-San, the trusting and innocent young geisha of the title, who disastrously falls in love with American Navy lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton (Marcello Giordani), only to be abandoned by him. Maria Zifchak is her loyal servant Suzuki and Dwayne Croft is Sharpless, the sympathetic American consul who does all he can but is unable to avert tragedy. Performance Date Mar 7, 2009
Movie Information
Patricia Racette
as Cio-Cio-San
Marcello Giordani
as Pinkerton
Greg Fedderly
as Goro
Maria Zifchak
as Suzuki
Dwayne Croft
as Sharpless
Laura Fries
as Cousin
Linda Mays
as Mother
Stephen Paynter
as Uncle Yakuside
Jean Braham
as Aunt
Keith Miller
as Imperial Commissioner
Christian Jeong
as The Registrar
Dean Peterson
as The Bonze
David Won
as Yamadori
Edyta Kulczak
as Kate Pinkerton
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