Madame Butterfly

About this Event

In Nagasaki, Japan, the American naval officer Pinkerton meets the 15-year-old geisha Cio-Cio-San, nicknamed Butterfly. What was merely a pastime for him – a "temporary marriage" common among Western men at the time – becomes a true love affair for Butterfly. She embraces his faith, is disowned by her family, and lives in isolation from then on – with a child Pinkerton has never met.