from Act III of the Italian opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa

Role: Benjamin Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the US Navy

Voice Part: tenor       Fach: spinto tenor

Setting: Butterfly's house

Synopsis: Pinkerton comes to Butterfly's house and, after speaking to Suzuki, decides that it would be too painful to say goodbye to Butterfly directly. He bids adieu to the house in which he and Butterfly spent many happy hours.

from Act I of the Italian opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa

Role: Benjamin Pinkerton, a lieutenant in the US Navy

Voice Part: tenor       Fach: spinto tenor

Setting: The garden of a Japanese house, overlooking the Nagasaki harbour

Synopsis: Pinkerton speaks with Sharpless, the U.S. Consul, saying that Americans take whatever liberties they want with the native women and then move on without regard to the consequences.

from Act III of the Italian opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa

Role: Madame Butterfly, a Japanese girl alson known as Cio-Cio-San

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: lyric soprano|spinto

Setting: Butterfly's house

Synopsis: Butterfly has discovered that Pinkerton has married again. Consumed with despair and about to kill herself, she tells her son that he will never remember her or remember that she died for him.

from Act II of the Italian opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa

Role: Madame Butterfly, a Japanese girl alson known as Cio-Cio-San

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: lyric soprano|spinto

Setting: Butterfly's house

Synopsis: Three years have passed since Butterfly's American husband left her. Her servant Suzuki, tries to convince her that he isn't coming back, but Butterfly is convinced that he will. She sings of the day that he will return. She dreams of him sailing into the harbor and climbing up the hill to meet her.