About The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Madama Butterfly
- Released on April 02, 2016
- Music
Anthony Minghella’s beautiful, atmospheric production enhances Puccini’s drama of unfortunate, doomed love. Soprano Kristine Opolais brings all of her passionate commitment to her portrayal of Cio-Cio-San, the teenage geisha who gives up everything for Lt. Pinkerton. Roberto Alagna is the American naval officer who does not understand the depth of Cio-Cio-San’s love, and whose subsequent marriage to an American woman precipitates Butterfly’s suicide. Maria Zifchak is Suzuki, Cio-Cio-San’s faithful servant, and Dwayne Croft plays the American consul Sharpless, who tries to avert the tragedy. Karel Mark Chichon conducts.
Full Cast of The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Roberto Alagna
plays Lt. B. F. Pinkerton
Kristine Opolais
plays Cio-Cio-San
Maria Zifchak
plays Suzuki
Dwayne Croft
plays Sharpless
Deborah Voigt
plays Self - Host
Tony Stevenson
plays Goro
Patricia Steiner
plays Cio-Cio-San's cousin
Belinda Oswald
plays Cio-Cio-San's mother
Craig Montgomery
plays Uncle Yakuside
Jean Braham
plays Cio-Cio-San's aunt
David Crawford
plays Imperial Commissioner
Juhwan Lee
plays The Registrar
Stefan Szkafarowsky
plays The Bonze
Edyta Kulczac
plays Kate Pinkerton
Kevin Augustine
plays Cio-Cio-San's child
Tom Lee
plays Cio-Cio-San's child
Marc Petrosino
plays Cio-Cio-San's child
Hsin-Ping Chang
plays Ballet soloist
James Graber
plays Ballet soloist
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