The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly

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

Cast

Patricia Racette

Cio-Cio-San

Marcello Giordani

Pinkerton

Greg Fedderly

Goro

Maria Zifchak

Suzuki

Dwayne Croft

Sharpless

Laura Fries

Cousin

Linda Mays

Mother

Stephen Paynter

Uncle Yakuside

Jean Braham

Aunt

Keith Miller

Imperial Commissioner

Christian Jeong

The Registrar

Dean Peterson

The Bonze