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In the name Cio-Cio-San, the terrible destiny of the geisha is already written: Madama Butterfly.  Lovely and fragile like a “delicate butterfly”, she is only fifteen when she marries Pinkerton, the Lieutenant of the United States Navy who returns after a long absence of three years, to claim the son born of their union. Unable to support the terrible delusion of the destruction of her dreams, the young mother sees no future but to sacrifice herself with a final, painful fluttering of her wings. The rousing fiasco of the first performance at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano on February 17, 1904 obliged Giacomo Puccini to pen a new version, which was met with a triumphant success a few months later at the Teatro Grande di Brescia. Since then this heart-wrenching Japanese tragedy has not failed to touch audiences all over the world.

Japanese tragedy in three acts

Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica from Madam Butterfly by John Luther Long

Music by Giacomo Puccini

Francesco Ivan Ciampa

Fabio Ceresa

Tiziano Santi

Tommaso Lagattolla

Fiammetta Baldiserri

Liana Aleksanyan

Matteo Lippi

Francesco Verna

Annunziata Vestri

Luciano Leoni

Orchestra and Choir of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Choir Director Lorenzo Fratini