Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of dashing American officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage. She lives in hope that one day he will return. Three years later, Cio-Cio-San and her little son see Pinkerton’s ship in the harbour. She excitedly expects his visit – but Pinkerton and his American wife Kate have come only to take the boy away, to raise him in America. Cio-Cio-San bids her son farewell and then takes her own life.
Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier
Director
Antonio Pappano
Conductor
Ermonela Jaho
Cio-Cio-San
Marcelo Puente
Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton
Scott Hendricks
Sharpless
Carlo Bosi
Goro
Elizabeth DeShong
Suzuki
Jeremy White
Bonze
Emily Edmonds
Kate Pinkerton
Gyula Nagy
Imperial Commissioner
Yuriy Yurchuk
Prince Yamadori
Sergey Levitin
Concert Master
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