Madame Butterfly
GIACOMO PUCCINI
A forbidden love, an unshakable devotion, and the ultimate sacrifice—Puccini’s Madame Butterfly remains one of opera’s most poignant works. Pocket Opera presents this heart-wrenching masterpiece as it might actually have sounded in Nagasaki, when East meets West. With special thanks to Pacific Opera Project’s Josh Shaw and Eiki Isomura for their brilliant bilingual translation.
Music Director Temirzhan Yerzhanov
Stage Director Melody Tachibana King

Hannah Cho
Cio Cio San

Chester Pidduck
Pinkerton

Anders Fröhlich
Sharpless

HaYoung Jung
Suzuki

Joachim Luis
Goro

Phoebe Dinga
Kate Pinkerton

Kevin Gino
Yamadori

Chung-Wai Soong
The Bonze

Wayne Wong
Imperial Commissioner

Josephine Lee
The Aunt (Butterfly Cover)

Akane Ota
The Mother (Suzuki Cover)

Niko Murakami
The Cousin

Justin Baptista
The Registrar

Donzheh Pidduck
Trouble

Alliana Lili Yang
Ensemble (The Cousin Cover)

Blythe Tai
Ensemble

Keiko Kiyashka
Ensemble

Mayo Tsuzuki
Ensemble

Makiko Ueda
Ensemble

Tetsuya Taura
Ensemble

Michael Nicer
Ensemble

Melody Tachibana King
Stage Director

Temirzhan Yerzhanov
Music Director