Anthony Minghella’s stunning production of Puccini’s opera opened the Met’s 2006–07 season and was seen by thousands of people around the world as part of the company’s Live in HD series. Patricia Racette is Cio-Cio-San, the trusting and innocent young geisha of the title, who disastrously falls in love with American Navy lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton (Marcello Giordani), only to be abandoned by him. Maria Zifchak is her loyal servant Suzuki and Dwayne Croft is Sharpless, the sympathetic American consul who does all he can but is unable to avert tragedy. Performance Date Mar 7, 2009
as Cio-Cio-San
as Pinkerton
as Goro
as Suzuki
as Sharpless
as Cousin
as Mother
as Uncle Yakuside
as Aunt
as Imperial Commissioner
as The Registrar
as The Bonze
as Yamadori
as Kate Pinkerton
