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Now Playing Through July 1, 2023

Madame Butterfly

NEW SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CO-PRODUCTION

By Giacomo Puccini

Overview

Dates

June 3–July 1, 2023

Composer

Giacomo Puccini

Price

Starts at $31

Run Time

Approximately 2 hours 41 minutes including one intermission

Language

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Libretto

Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa

NEW CO-PRODUCTION

Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts a new staging of
Puccini’s heartbreaking drama from director Amon Miyamoto. Told through the eyes of Trouble, the son of Cio-Cio-San and Lt. B.F. Pinkerton, this unique production provides a new perspective on an age-old story.

Costume designs by late fashion icon Kenzō Takada adorn
a cast that stars Karah Son, Michael Fabiano, Hyona Kim,
Lucas Meachem, and Julius Ahn.

Pre-Opera Talk with Nick Ishimaru

 

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The Buzz

"Music Director Eun Sun Kim deployed her trademark combination of forceful clarity and rhythmic freedom to bring out the score’s irresistible surges and ebbs..."
- San Francisco Chronicle

"American tenor Michael Fabiano, always a welcome presence in War Memorial, brought his blazing tone and easy fluency to the role of Pinkerton."
- San Francisco Chronicle

"...baritone Lucas Meachem gave a superbly forward performance that made the character’s blend of virtue and moral weakness shine forth."
- San Francisco Chronicle

Synopsis

A 15-year-old Japanese girl devotes herself to her absent American husband—only to discover, after years of waiting, that he married another woman while abroad.





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* San Francisco Opera Debut

Performances
June 3, 6, 9, 18, 21, 24, 27; July 1, 2023

Previous performances of Madame Butterfly can be found in our Archive.

New San Francisco Opera co-production with the Tokyo Nikikai Opera Foundation, Semperoper Dresden, and Det Kongelige Teater, Copenhagen

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Madame Butterfly

Made Possible By

This production is made possible, in part, by Jerome L. and Thao N. Dodson; Margareta and Staffan Encrantz; Burgess and Elizabeth Jamieson; and Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem.