Community programming both live and digital will be announced as they are finalized over the summer. Our goal is to ensure that audiences and performers of all races and ethnicities have the resources to think critically about the work. Fundamentally, this is an opera written in the first decade of the 1900’s by a European man, which reaches our modern ears and understanding in a different way. The Atlanta Opera will produce a series of events and community conversations along with partners such as the Japan American Society of Georgia to contextualize and create a safe space for open-eyed exploration of Madama Butterfly. The Atlanta Opera’s presentation of Madama Butterfly in November 2022 provides an opportunity for discussion and reflection on a beautiful and beloved, but also troubled work of art. Presented in partnership with The Japan American Society of Georgia This production includes depictions of suicide and child brides (Cio-Cio San is 15 years old). Nina Yoshida Nelsen, Julius Ahn, and Allen Michael Jones also join the cast and The Atlanta Opera Orchestra, led by Timothy Myers. Featuring Yasko Sato as Cio-Cio-San and Gianluca Terranova as Pinkerton singing one of the most exquisitely beautiful works in the repertoire. Renouncing her culture and her family to become a proper American wife, she settles into his home overlooking Nagasaki Harbor and waits for his ship to return. Cio-Cio-San-fifteen years old and in love-dreams of her new life with the handsome young officer. Premiere Date: February 17, 1904, La Scala, MilanĬultures collide when an American naval officer stationed in Nagasaki decides to take a Japanese wife. Librettist: Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa

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