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 Location San Francisco, CA Venue War Memorial Opera House Season 1968 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Aldo Faldi Production Nathaniel Merrill Staged by Matthew Farruggio Designer Toni Businger Davis L. West Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Lt. B. F. Pinkerton Nicholas Di Virgilio(10/23, 30; 11/13, 26) Vahan Khanzadian(11/6) Goro Alan Crofoot Suzuki Sylvia Anderson Sharpless Ingvar Wixell Cio-Cio-San, Madama Butterfly Radmila Bakocevic(10/30, 11/13) Jeannette Pilou(10/23, 11/26) Imperial Commissioner Stephen Janzen Official Registrar Colin Harvey The Bonze Clifford Grant Prince Yamadori Howard Fried Cio-Cio-San's child Laurelle Gutierrez Kate Pinkerton Sheila Nadler Show Dates Wed, Oct 23 1968, 1:30pm Wed, Oct 30 1968, 1:30pm Wed, Nov 6 1968, 1:30am Wed, Nov 13 1968, 1:30pm Tue, Nov 26 1968, 1:30pm Time and Place Nagasaki, Japan, at the time of the Great White Fleet Scenes Act I -- Nagasaki, Japan Act II -- Three years later Act III -- The following morning Acknowledgements The production of "Madama Butterfly" was donated to the San Francisco Opera Association by the San Francisco Opera Guild in 1966. Notes San Francisco Opera Guild Student Matinees 11/6 Cio-Cio-San artist not listed