The Metropolitan Opera: Madama Butterfly (2009)
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Anthony Minghella’s stunning production of Puccini’s opera opened the Met’s 2006–07 season and was seen by thousands of people around the world as part of the company’s Live in HD series. Patricia Racette is Cio-Cio-San, the trusting and innocent young geisha of the title, who disastrously falls in love with American Navy lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton (Marcello Giordani), only to be abandoned by him. Maria Zifchak is her loyal servant Suzuki and Dwayne Croft is Sharpless, the sympathetic American consul who does all he can but is unable to avert tragedy. Performance Date Mar 7, 2009
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Cast
Patricia Racette
Cio-Cio-San
Marcello Giordani
Pinkerton
Greg Fedderly
Goro
Maria Zifchak
Suzuki
Dwayne Croft
Sharpless
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Laura Fries
Cousin
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Linda Mays
Mother
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Stephen Paynter
Uncle Yakuside
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Jean Braham
Aunt
Keith Miller
Imperial Commissione...
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Christian Jeong
The Registrar
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Dean Peterson
The Bonze
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David Won
Yamadori
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Edyta Kulczak
Kate Pinkerton