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 1948 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Pietro Cimara Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Cast Madama Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San Dorothy Kirsten Pinkerton, Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Jan Peerce Suzuki, Cio-Cio-San's servant Herta Glaz Sharpless, United States Consul at Nagasaki Giuseppe Valdengo Goro, a marriage broker Alessio De Paolis The Bonze, Cio-Cio-San's Uncle Lorenzo Alvary Prince Yamadori George Cehanovsky Kate Pinkerton Mary Jane Gray Imperial Commissioner Walter Olitzki Official Registrar Colin Harvey Trouble Michele Tracy Show Dates Fri, Oct 8 1948, 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, next morning Media Image Boris Godunov, Modest Mussorgsky. San Francisco Opera, 1948. Photographer: Unknown/San Francisco Opera. George Cehanovsky (Yamadori) Credit Unknown Document SFO_PUB_01_SFO_1948_12_compressed.pdf (7.4 MB) Notes To access the full production program, click the PDF link above. ---------------------
Image Boris Godunov, Modest Mussorgsky. San Francisco Opera, 1948. Photographer: Unknown/San Francisco Opera. George Cehanovsky (Yamadori) Credit Unknown