Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1989)
• January 6th, 1989 • 2h 23min
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Overview
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.
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