Production Director

Each night, the young Cio-Cio-San looks out over the port of Nagasaki, eagerly waiting the return of her husband, U.S. Naval officer Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton. Alongside her is their young son, Trouble, who has never met his father. But disappointment is about to sail across the horizon when Pinkerton arrives with his recently wedded American wife. Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts a new staging of Puccini’s heartbreaking drama from director Amon Miyamoto, who reimagines this classic through the eyes of Trouble.

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Madame Butterfly

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

At the centre of Giacomo Puccini's Tragedia giapponese, set in Nagasaki at the beginning of the 20th century, is the young geisha Cio-Cio-San, called »Butterfly«. The American Naval Lieutenant Pinkerton enters into a short-term marriage with Cio-Cio-San – according to a possible practice in Japan at the time – and rents the right house for the stay. While for Pinkerton the liaison was planned from the outset as an erotic pleasure, for Cio-Cio-San it means not only the opportunity to escape poverty, but the love of her life ... Even today, the tragic love story, which premiered at La Scala in Milan in 1904, touches hearts, shaken by the realism with which the cultural misunderstandings and their deadly consequences are pointed out. Japanese director Amon Miyamoto, together with star designer Kenzō Takada, presents his own Eastern view of the Japanese-American liaison.

Madama Butterfly

Semperoper Dresden

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly cannot accept that her great love is doomed to end in heartbreak.

Production Director

Amon Miyamoto

Events

Upcoming events

4 - 30 Jan, 2026

Madama Butterfly · Semperoper Dresden

Past events

Jun 3 - Jul 1, 2023

Madame Butterfly · San Francisco Opera

Apr 2 - May 24, 2022

Madama Butterfly · Semperoper Dresden

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Madama Butterfly by Puccini

Semperoper Dresden

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