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Media Relations

Madame Butterfly Gallery Captions

The IU Jacobs School of Music presents Madama Butterfly, the opera by Giacomo Puccini. The opera, set in Nagasaki, Japan, is the story of a woman who defies her honorable family and forfeits her heritage to marry a dashing American naval officer.

A member of the chorus sweeps the porch of Lt. Pinkerton's new home.

Madama Butterfly, played by Jing Zhang, approaches her soon-to-be husband, Lt. Pinkerton.

Butterfly's uncle, a Buddhist priest, criticizes her for marrying an American.

Lt. Pinkerton, played by Adam Diegel, keeps Madama Butterfly from escaping their new marriage.

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