Giacomo Puccini
Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa

The U.S. Forces show their presence world-wide: American Lieutenant Pinkerton has an affair in Nagasaki with Cio-Cio San, "Madame Butterfly". He sails away. She then has his child. Three years later he returns to Japan – accompanied by his American wife and wants to take the child with him. Butterfly commits suicide.

In Italian with German surtitles

Cast

Conductor Manlio Benzi
Production Wolf Busse
Set Otto Stich
Costumes Silvia Strahammer
Chor Stellario Fagone

Cio-Cio-San Hui He
Suzuki Okka von der Damerau
B. F. Pinkerton Arturo Chacón-Cruz
Kate Pinkerton Angela Brower
Sharpless Levente Molnár
Goro Nakodo Gregory Bonfatti
Der Fürst Yamadori Christian Rieger
Onkel Bonzo Goran Jurić
Yakusidé Rafał Pawnuk
Der Kaiserliche Kommissär Andrea Borghini

The Bavarian State Orchestra
The Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera

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