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 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(9/12) Sena Jurinac(9/22) Pinkerton, Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Giuseppe Gismondo(9/12) Giuseppe Zampieri(9/22) 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 Nancy Mlynar Show Dates Sat, Sep 12 1959, 8:30pm Tue, Sep 22 1959, 8:30pm Time and Place Nagasaki, Japan Scenes Act I -- Exterior of Pinkerton's house INTERMISSION Act II -- Butterfly's home, three years later Act III -- Same as Act II, the next morning