Madama Butterfly

Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa

Friday, November 15 | 8 PM
Sunday, November 17 | 2 PM

Cio-Cio-San, a young Japanese girl, known as Butterfly, learns to trust and love an American naval officer, the reckless, pleasure-seeking B.F. Pinkerton. But when Pinkerton’s intentions are finally revealed, Butterfly’s dreams are destroyed in ways of no return.

Concept and creation by Mo Zhou

Sung in Italian with English captions

Orchestra Sponsor – The Arthur J. and Mary Celeste Lerman Fund

The W.L. Lyons Brown Theatre