The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century in the city of Nagasaki, about a young Japanese woman who weds an American naval officer who later abandons her and the child she bore him.
Directed byRodney Greenberg

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Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)

Peter Dvorský
Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton

Richard Stilwell
Sharpless

Elena Zilio
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