Madame Butterfly Composer Giacomo Puccini Librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Based On the works of John Luther Long and David Belasco Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1946 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Gaetano Merola Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Cast Madama Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San Licia Albanese Pinkerton, Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Charles Kullman Suzuki, Cio-Cio-San's servant Herta Glaz Sharpless, United States Consul at Nagasaki John Brownlee Goro, a marriage broker Alessio De Paolis The Bonze, Cio-Cio-San's Uncle Lorenzo Alvary Prince Yamadori George Cehanovsky Kate Pinkerton Eloise Farrell Imperial Commissioner Walter Olitzki Official Registrar Colin Harvey Show Dates Wed, Oct 30 1946, 8pm Time and Place About 1900; Nagasaki, Japan Scenes Act I -- Exterior of Pinkerton's House Act II -- Interior of Butterfly's Home Act III -- Same as Act II