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Madama Butterfly – Royal Opera House

Wednesday, November 20, 2024
11:23pm
2017 Rated: NR Run Time: 2 hrs 45 mins, with intermission Opera Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of dashing American officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage. She lives in hope that one day he will return. Three years later, Cio-Cio-San and her little son see Pinkerton’s ship in the harbour. She excitedly expects his visit – but Pinkerton and his American wife Kate have come only to take the boy away, to raise him in America. Cio-Cio-San bids her son farewell and then takes her own life. (The Royal Opera House) Will call tickets may be picked up at The Cary Box Office beginning one hour prior to the movie.