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 Goro Alan Crofoot Suzuki Sylvia Anderson Sharpless Ingvar Wixell Cio-Cio-San, Madama Butterfly Jeannette Pilou(10/4, 19, 27; 11/29) Dorothy Kirsten(11/9) 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 Fri, Oct 4 1968, 8pm Sat, Oct 19 1968, 8pm Sun, Oct 27 1968, 2pm Sat, Nov 9 1968, 2pm Fri, Nov 29 1968, 8pm Time and Place Nagasaki, Japan, at the time of the Great White Fleet Scenes Act I -- Nagasaki, Japan Act II -- Three years later INTERMISSION Act III -- The following morning Media Image Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Cecil Thompson/San Francisco Opera. Nicholas di Virgillio (Pinkerton), Ingvar Wixel (Sharpless) Credit Thompson Image Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Cecil Thompson/San Francisco Opera. Nicholas di Virgillio (Pinkerton) Credit Thompson Image Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Margaret Norton/San Francisco Opera. Jeanette Pilou (Cio-Cio San) Credit Norton Image Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Unknown/San Francisco Opera. Jeanette Pilou (Cio-Cio San), Sylvia Anderson (Suzuki) Credit Unknown Image Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Unknown/San Francisco Opera. Alan Crofoot (Goro), Nicholas Di Virgillio (Pinkerton), Ingvar Wixell (Sharpless) Credit Unknown Image Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Unknown/San Francisco Opera. Jeanette Pilou (Cio-Cio San) Credit Unknown Document SFO_PUB_01_SFO_1968_08_compressed.pdf (15.89 MB) Acknowledgements The production of "Madama Butterfly" was donated to the San Francisco Opera Association by the San Francisco Opera Guild in 1966. Notes To access the full production program, click the PDF link above. --------------------
Image Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Cecil Thompson/San Francisco Opera. Nicholas di Virgillio (Pinkerton), Ingvar Wixel (Sharpless) Credit Thompson
Image Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Cecil Thompson/San Francisco Opera. Nicholas di Virgillio (Pinkerton) Credit Thompson
Image Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Margaret Norton/San Francisco Opera. Jeanette Pilou (Cio-Cio San) Credit Norton
Image Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Unknown/San Francisco Opera. Jeanette Pilou (Cio-Cio San), Sylvia Anderson (Suzuki) Credit Unknown
Image Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Unknown/San Francisco Opera. Alan Crofoot (Goro), Nicholas Di Virgillio (Pinkerton), Ingvar Wixell (Sharpless) Credit Unknown
Image Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Unknown/San Francisco Opera. Jeanette Pilou (Cio-Cio San) Credit Unknown