Puccini: Madama Butterfly

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.

• Rodney GreenbergDirector

• Anna Tomowa-SintowCio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)
• Peter DvorskýBenjamin Franklin Pinkerton
• Richard StilwellSharpless
• Elena ZilioSuzuki