Conductor
Jonathan Dudley
Stage Director
David Farrar
Set Designer
Peter Dean Beck
Lighting Designer
Russell Pyle
Costumes designed by
Toni Businger
for the San Francisco Opera
Costumer
Cathleen Lisbeth Edwards
Wigs and Makeup by
Theatrical Hairgoods Co., Inc.
Assistant Conductor
and Chorus Director
James Ruggirello
Madama Butterfly
First performance
La Scala, Milan
February 17, 1904
Dates of Performances:
May 19, 21 and 22, 1982
Wilshire Ebell Theater,
Los Angeles, California |
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Madama Butterfly
Opera in Three Acts
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
English translation by Anne Chotzinoff Grossman
with
Los Angeles Opera Theater Opera Orchestra |
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CAST
(in order of appearance) |
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B. F. Pinkerton,
Lieutenant in the United States Navy |
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Augusto Paglialunga |
| Goro, a marriage broker |
Jeffrey Gerstein |
| Suzuki, servant to Butterfly |
Gail Dubinbaum |
Sharpless,
United States Consul at Nagasaki |
Conrad Immel |
| ClO-ClO-San, Madama Butterfly |
Maria Abajian
Martha Sheil |
| The Cousin |
Yvonne Regalado |
| Cio-Cio-San's Mother |
Carolyn Glazier |
| Yakuside |
Keith Butenshon |
| The Aunt |
Laurel Lee James |
| The Imperial Commissioner |
Herbert Ware |
| The Official Registrar |
David Darling |
| The Bonze, Cia-Cia-San's uncle |
Michael Gallup |
| Prince Yamaadori |
Herbert Ware |
| Trouble, Cia-Cia-San's child |
Lindsay Dart |
| Kate Pinkerton |
Jamee Ard |
Cio-Cio-San's relatives and friends, servants.
Nagasaki, Japan, about the turn of the century.
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