Madame Butterfly

Sung in Italian with English and Spanish translations projected above the stage. Opera Orlando invites you into Puccini's most devastatingly beautiful work. Cio-Cio San marries an American naval officer who almost immediately returns to the States. She waits three years — certain he will come back, but is she ready when he does. Puccini surrounds her story with music of such tenderness and such inevitability that audiences who have seen it a dozen times still find themselves undone by the…