Conductor
Henry Holt
Associate Conductor/
Music Administrator
Frank Fetta
Stage Director
David Farrar
Set Designer
Peter Dean Beck
Lighting Designer
Russell Pyle
Costumer
Steven B. Feldman
Chorus Director
Jeannine Wagner
Wigs & Makeup
Larry Cannon
Japanese Technical Consultant
Miyoko Komori
Madama Butterfly
First performance
La Scala, Milan
February 17, 1904
Los Angeles Opera Theater
Performance Dates:
Wilshire Ebell Theater
Los Angeles, California
November l0, 13, 15, 17, 1984 |
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Madama Butterfly
An Opera in Three Acts
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
with
Los Angeles Opera Theater Opera Orchestra |
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| CAST |
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B. F. Pinkerton,
Lieutenant in the United States Navy
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James Schwisow
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| Goro, a marriage broker |
Robert Schmorr |
| Suzuki, servant to Butterfly |
Judith Christin |
Sharpless, United States Consul
at Nagasaki |
Conrad Immel |
| Cio-Cio-San, Madama Butterfly |
Delcina Stevenson |
| The Cousin |
Julie Groger |
Cio-Cio-San's Mother
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Sarah Agler |
| Yakuside |
Yoav Paskowitz |
| The Aunt |
Linda Shankel |
| The Imperial Commissione'r |
Herbert Ware |
| The Official Registrar |
Robert Remington |
| The Bonze, Cio-Cio-San's uncle |
Michael Gallup |
| Prince Yamadori |
Bruce Tuthill |
| Trouble, Cio-Cio-San's child |
David Matthews |
| Kate Pinkerton |
Rosemary Scott |
Cio-Cio-San's relatives and friends, servants.
Nagasaki, Japan, about the turn of the century. |
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