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Celebrate... Set in Nagasaki, Japan, 1904. Puccini's music touches the heart and makes it weep in this timeless story and exceedingly beautiful and popular opera. A woman defies her honorable family and forfeits her heritage to marry a dashing American naval officer. For her it means forever. But for him, it is an oasis of pleasure during his short stay in Japan. He returns home, and it is not until years later that he learns of the damage he has done, and the child that he has fathered. When he returns with his American wife to claim the child, Butterfly chooses, what is for her, the only honorable solution. Sung in Italian with English supertitles. Super Titles translation by Nicholas Muni
Super Titles are the gift of the Mary Justine McClain Endowment. |
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