Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/b/4/2/event_69962882.jpegFrom the Arena di Verona (Italy), Puccini's timeless masterpiece of a teenage geisha who marries and loves an officer of the U.S. Navy, Lt. B. F. Pinkerton. Butterfly ranks with Tosca and La Boheme as one of the most performed operas in the repertory, a perennial favorite. First performed in Brescia, Italy in 1904 and in New York in 1907.

Cast: Raina Kabaivanska as Butterfly, Nazzareno Antinori as Pinkerton.

Performed and filmed in the open-air Roman amphitheater in Verona, Italy. Orchestra and Chorus di Verona conducted by Maurizio Arena. 1983. Period sets and costumes.

Pronounciation: JAH-koh-moh poo-CHEE-nee

In three acts. Run time: 144 minutes.

Patricia Racette, Marcelo Giordani