Watch Puccini, Madama Butterfly - Cheryl Barker, Robert Wilson, De Nederlandse Opera 2003

When Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton (Martin Thompson), Lieutenant in the United States Navy, meets the 15 year-old geisha Cio-Cio San (Mrs Butterfly), he finds her so exotically lovely that he marries her, and the two lovers quickly have a baby together. But the American man only stays for a short time in Nagazaki, and finally goes back to the United States, where he marries another young woman...