After more than a decade, Puccini’s masterpiece, Madama Butterfly, returns to the National Theater of Opera and Ballet, this time in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute. With a new directorial concept that focuses on the nature of the fragile and delicate woman who dies from lack of care, attention, and love.

The beautiful 15-year-old geisha remains faithful to her American suitor Pinkerton. Although three years have passed since his departure, Butterfly, now a mother of a son, refuses to start a new life. Madama Butterfly, the opera by composer Giacomo Puccini, unfolds in three acts.

Dedicated to Queen Italy Elena Montenegro, it premiered at Teatro alla Scala in Milan on February 17, 1904, on the occasion of the Carnival Christmas season. “Madama Butterfly” will be at the Opera House until June 1st.

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