Madama Butterfly January 21, 2009

Cio-Cio-San--seduced and abandoned by naval officer B.F. Pinkerton, and now the mother of his child. Day after day she watches the harbor hoping he'll return, and finally, he does. But he's back with a new American wife, crushing the geisha's heart--and ours. Shunned by her family, shamed in her community, and rejected by the man she loves, Butterfly sees only one way out... Puccini's melodies take flight in this production with the the incandescent Patricia Racette and lyric tenor Frank Lopardo. Presented in Italian with projected English translations.