Madama Butterfly

About the show

In Nagasaki, the young Cio-Cio-San marries U.S. naval officer B. F. Pinkerton, who regards the marriage as temporary. After Pinkerton leaves, she waits three years and gives birth to their son. Pinkerton returns with his American wife, who plans to raise the child. Cio-Cio-San agrees to give him up, bids farewell to her son, and dies by suicide.