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.
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. From the opera by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Guiseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica. Deluxe widescreen presentation. Videocassette release of a c1995 production.
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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