Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Seen it?1989 | 143 min | Music
Monday Morning Maybeearly ratingWhy it’s a Monday Morning Maybe
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Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for most people.
- The mood
- Easygoing.
- The pace
- Moves along nicely, at 2 hr 23 min.
- What might put you off
- It's in Italian, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
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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- Reach & staying powerNot counted
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- Buzz & cultural impactWeak
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Cast & crew
Directed by Rodney Greenberg
- Anna Tomowa-SintowCio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)
- Peter DvorskýBenjamin Franklin Pinkerton
- Richard StilwellSharpless
- Elena ZilioSuzuki