Madama Butterfly (2004)
• July 10th, 2004 • 2h 22min
Music
Overview
Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased from a marriage broker. The broker, Goro, has procured him three servants and a geisha wife, Cio-Cio-San, known as Madama Butterfly. He is enchanted with the fragile Cio-Cio-San. Cio-Cio-San is heard in the distance joyously singing of her wedding. In a quiet moment, Cio-Cio-San shows her bridegroom her few earthly treasures and tells him of her intention to embrace his Christian faith. The Imperial Commissioner performs the wedding ceremony, and the guests toast the couple. The celebration is interrupted by Cio-Cio-San's uncle, a Buddhist priest, who bursts in, cursing the girl for having renounced her ancestors' religion. Alone with Cio-Cio-San in the moonlit garden, her husband dries her tears, and she joins him in singing of their love.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Amadeus
Released on: 1984-09-19
History, Music, Drama
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Adolphe Appia Visionary of Invisible
Released on: 1988-09-11
Music, Documentary
The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in con...
Puccini: Turandot
Released on: 2009-11-07
Music
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical C...
Car Men
Released on: 2006-11-26
Comedy, Music
Car Men is a collaboration between the renowned choreographer Jíri Kylían and filmmaker Boris Paval ...
The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
Released on: 2023-10-21
Music, Drama
American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the l...
The Metropolitan Opera: Romeo et Juliette
Released on: 2024-03-23
Music, Romance, Drama
Two singers at the height of their powers—radiant soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor sensation Benjamin...
Farinelli
Released on: 1994-12-01
History, Drama, Music
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Carmen
Released on: 1988-12-12
Music
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Lev...
Carmina Burana: Dancing in Defiance
Released on: 2024-05-16
Drama, Music
A live recording of Carl Orff's world-famous musical masterpiece Carmina Burana, performed by more t...
Macbeth
Released on: 2001-01-01
Music
This hard-edged postmodern production of Giuseppe Verdi's haunting masterpiece brings the story of S...
Siegfried
Released on: 1990-02-23
Music
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the N...
The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest
Released on: 2012-11-09
Music
Composer Thomas Adès conducts the Met premiere of his powerful opera based on Shakespeare’s last pla...
Adams: Doctor Atomic
Released on: 2008-08-11
Music
John Adams’s mesmerizing score, in the powerful production of Penny Woolcock, tells the story of one...
Das Liebesverbot
Released on: 2016-02-19
Music
This Wagner opera is rarely performed because of the scandals that engulfed the Magdeburg Theatre wh...
Aida - Arena di Verona
Released on: 2013-11-05
Drama, Music
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...
Pagliacci
Released on: 1948-12-02
Music, Drama
Pagliacci, is a 1948 Italian film based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Mario ...
Così fan tutte
Released on: 2016-10-17
Music
Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Win...
Verdi: Nabucco
Released on: 2017-01-07
Music
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his lon...
Carmen
Released on: 1984-03-14
Music, Drama
A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful ...