On Sunday evenings during November 2023, Cincinnati Opera partners with 90.9 WGUC, Cincinnati’s classical public radio station, to broadcast productions from its 2023 Summer Festival. Each broadcast will begin at 8 p.m. ET. You can listen on air at 90.9 FM and online at wguc.org.
Madame Butterfly
Originally performed July 22, 27, and 29, 2023, at Cincinnati Music Hall
Music by Giacomo Puccini; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Keitaro Harada, conductor; Matthew Ozawa, stage director
Featuring Karah Son, Adam Smith, Nozomi Kato, Julius Ahn, Nmon Ford, Jacob Junbo Zhou, Peixin Chen, Randell McGee, Kayleigh Decker; Cincinnati Opera Chorus; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Description:
Enter the world of naval officer B.F. Pinkerton, who treats Japan as his playground. He’s taken a nearly thousand-year lease on a house there and will marry a young girl named Cio-Cio-San, known as Madame Butterfly. But is it merely a fantasy? For Butterfly, vows are not to be taken lightly, and as Pinkerton’s intentions are revealed, her dreams become a tragedy of limitless depths with no going back.