
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.
Top Billed Cast

Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)

Peter Dvorský
Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton

Richard Stilwell
Sharpless

Elena Zilio
Suzuki
Featured Crew
Rodney Greenberg
Director
David Belasco
Author
John Luther Long
Author
Gary Bradley
Editor

Giacomo Puccini
Music