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 1960 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Kurt Herbert Adler Stage Director(s) Dino Yannopoulos Chorus Director Vincenzo Giannini Musical Preparation Otto Guth Philip Eisenberg Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Madama Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San Leontyne Price Pinkerton, Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Giuseppe Zampieri Suzuki, Cio-Cio-San's servant Katherine Hilgenberg Sharpless, United States Consul at Nagasaki Mario Zanasi Goro, a marriage broker Howard Fried The Bonze, Cio-Cio-San's Uncle Robert Anderson Prince Yamadori Richard Wentworth Imperial Commissioner James Standard Official Registrar Colin Harvey Kate Pinkerton Margot Blum Trouble Martha Wall Show Dates Tue, Nov 8 1960, 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