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 1955 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Glauco Curiel Stage Director(s) Carlo Piccinato Chorus Director Leo Mueller Cast Madama Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San Dorothy Kirsten Pinkerton, Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Richard Lewis Suzuki, Cio-Cio-San's servant Margaret Roggero Sharpless, United States Consul at Nagasaki Cornell MacNeil Goro, a marriage broker Alessio De Paolis The Bonze, Cio-Cio-San's Uncle Lorenzo Alvary Prince Yamadori George Cehanovsky Kate Pinkerton Ruth Roehr Imperial Commissioner Carl Palangi Official Registrar Colin Harvey Trouble Janet Ruth O'Dou Show Dates Sun, Nov 6 1955, 3pm Time and Place Nagasaki, Japan Scenes Act I -- Exterior of Pinkerton's house Act II -- Butterfly's home, three years later Act III -- Same as Act II, the next morning