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 1959 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Arturo Basile Stage Director(s) Dino Yannopoulos Chorus Director Vincenzo Giannini Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Madama Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San Dorothy Kirsten Pinkerton, Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Giuseppe Zampieri Suzuki, Cio-Cio-San's servant Edith Evans Sharpless, United States Consul at Nagasaki Mario Zanasi Goro, a marriage broker Virginio Assandri The Bonze, Cio-Cio-San's Uncle Mark Elyn Prince Yamadori Howard Fried Imperial Commissioner Eugene Green Official Registrar Colin Harvey Kate Pinkerton Margot Blum Trouble Janet Ruth O'Dou Show Dates Tue, Nov 10 1959, 8pm 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 Notes Major intermission after Act I