Madama Butterfly
By Giacomo Puccini
Friday, February 8, 2008 - 7:30PM
Sunday, February 10, 2008 - 2:30PM
William Saroyan Theatre
With the Fresno Philharmonic
and Fresno Grand Opera Chorus
Conducted by Tyrone Paterson
Directed by Joseph Bascetta
It will touch your heart...
...an all new production of the world’s most
popular opera that inaugurated Fresno Grand
Opera in 1999. Set to breathtaking music,
Madama Butterfly recounts the emotional
true story of a young geisha seduced and
abandoned by an American Navy lieutenant.
Sung in Italian with English Supertitles
