Madame Butterfly [videorecording] / Martin Scorsese presents [a] Sony Classical [film] ; Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Pierre-Olivier Bardet présentent une production Erato Films, Idéale Audience en coproduction avec Imalyre - VTCOM France Télécom, France 3 Cinéma, Sony Classical ; un film de Frédéric Mitterrand.
From the opera by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Guiseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica. Deluxe widescreen presentation. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1995. Ying Huang (Madame Butterfly), Richard Troxell (Pinkerton), Ning Liang (Suzuki), Richard Cowan (Sharpless), Jing Ma Fan (Goro), Christopheren Nomura (Prince Yamadori), Constance Hauman (Kate Pinkerton), Edmund Zelotes Toliver (Imperial Commissioner, The Bonze), Catherine Napoli (Cio-Cio San's cousin), Laurence Monteyrol (Cio-Cio San's mother), Asayo Otsuka (Cio-Cio San's aunt), Richard Tronc (Yakusidé), Chœurs de Radio France, Orchestre de Paris, James Conlon, conductor.
Summary:
An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl known as Butterfly and marries her, with no intention of ever taking her home to America.
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