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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
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Cast
Patricia Racette
Cio-Cio-San
Marcello Giordani
Pinkerton
Greg Fedderly
Goro
Maria Zifchak
Suzuki
Dwayne Croft
Sharpless
Laura Fries
Cousin
Linda Mays
Mother
Stephen Paynter
Uncle Yakuside
Jean Braham
Aunt
Keith Miller
Imperial Commissioner
Christian Jeong
The Registrar
Dean Peterson
The Bonze
David Won
Yamadori
Edyta Kulczak
Kate Pinkerton
Director
Anthony Minghella
Director
