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Prince Yamadori's offer of marriage is turned down in this opera |
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OPERA CHARACTERS |
2022-11-16 |
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After this character learns her lover has married another, she commits seppuku using the same knife her father had used to kill himself |
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OPERA |
2022-05-13 |
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One of the librettists of this Puccini opera went to Nagasaki to help set the scene more accurately |
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OPERA |
2021-12-21 |
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In this opera, Lt. Pinkerton is already married to Cio-Cio-san when he turns up with an American wife named Kate |
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OPERA |
2021-05-13 |
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After his arranged wedding to this 15-year-old Japanese girl, naval officer B.F. Pinkerton sails to America |
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OPERA HEROINES |
2018-07-10 |
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Goro is the marriage broker who arranges a wedding for Cio-Cio-San in this opera |
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OPERA |
2016-06-22 |
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(Alex delivers the clue from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) The Imperial Commissioner is the one who reads the marriage agreement of Cio-Cio-San & Lieutenant Pinkerton in Act I of this opera |
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COSTUMES AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA |
2015-10-30 |
#7160 |
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In a bit of foreshadowing, the title character's dad has committed suicide before the action of this 1904 opera |
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OPERA |
2014-05-28 |
#6848 |
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This Puccini opera is set in Nagasaki in the early 1900s |
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OPERA |
2014-04-18 |
#6820 |
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Cio Cio San, a young Japanese woman |
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OPERAS WITH CHARACTER |
2011-07-26 |
#6202 |
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This opera ends with the title madam committing hara-kiri |
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OPERA |
2010-02-12 |
#5855 |
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1904: Suzuki, a geisha's servant |
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OPERAS BY CHARACTERS |
2009-04-28 |
#5682 |
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A flop when it debuted in 1904, this Puccini opera set in Nagasaki later became one of the best-loved operas |
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OPERA |
2008-06-11 |
#5483 |
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The title figure of this Puccini opera is Cio-Cio San |
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OPERA NAMES |
2008-01-21 |
#5381 |
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"How You Might Address an Upper-Class Married Creature of the Order Lepidoptera" |
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OPERA IN OTHER WORDS |
2007-03-27 |
#5197 |
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Nagasaki is the scene of this tragic 1904 opera |
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OPERA SETTINGS |
2006-11-01 |
#5093 |
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Puccini included a passage from "The Star-Spangled Banner" in one of Pinkerton's numbers in this opera |
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OPERA |
2005-12-19 |
#4896 |
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Act I of this opera opens at Pinkerton's house in Nagasaki |
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OPERA |
2004-06-08 |
#4562 |
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Cio-Cio-San, a Japanese woman; Lieutenant Pinkerton, USN; Suzuki, a servant |
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OPERAS BY CHARACTER |
2004-03-11 |
#4499 |
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If this heroine had married Prince Yamadori, there might not be that nasty suicide in Act III |
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OPERA TITLE CHARACTERS |
2004-01-26 |
#4466 |
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A flop when it debuted in 1904, this Puccini opera set in Nagasaki later became one of the best-loved operas |
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OH, NO! IT'S OPERA! |
2001-11-08 |
#3954 |
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Cio-Cio-San's better-known name |
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GRAND OL' OPERA |
1999-12-29 |
#3528 |
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Distraught that Lt. Pinkerton abandoned her, this Puccini heroine commits hara-kiri |
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OPERATIC DEMISES |
1997-05-01 |
#2929 |
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Her uncle the Bonze curses her for renouncing her religion to marry Lt. B.F. Pinkerton |
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OPERA CHARACTERS |
1996-12-20 |
#2835 |
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Prince Yamadori is a wealthy suitor rejected by Cio-Cio-San in this 1904 opera |
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OPERA CHARACTERS |
1996-04-23 |
#2692 |
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This opera's best-known aria is Cio-Cio-San's "Un Bel Di Vedremo" |
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OPERA |
1996-04-10 |
#2683 |
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Bonzo, who's also known as the Bonze, is Cio-Cio-San's uncle in this Puccini opera |
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OPERA |
1995-06-14 |
#2498 |
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Enrico Caruso starred as Lieutenant Pinkerton when this opera played at the Met in 1907 |
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OPERA |
1994-01-13 |
#2159 |
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This heroine's Japanese name is Cio-Cio-San |
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OPERA |
1992-10-13 |
#1862 |
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This geisha decorates her house with cherry blossoms in act II of a Puccini opera |
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OPERA |
1992-05-11 |
#1786 |
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This 1904 Puccini opera is set in Nagasaki |
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OPERA SETTINGS |
1992-03-17 |
#1747 |
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This Puccini title character stabs herself just before Lt. Pinkerton arrives to take her son away |
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OPERA |
1991-02-11 |
#1491 |
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After the horrible premiere of this Oriental opera, Puccini gave back his royalties & then revised it |
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OPERA |
1989-11-23 |
#1204 |
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At the start of this Puccini opera the Japanese heroine is 15, but 2 acts & 3 years later, she kills herself |
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OPERA |
1988-02-11 |
#799 |
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Composer Puccini was jeered at Italian opening of this opera set in Japan |
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OPERA |
1985-02-27 |
#123 |
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Lt. Pinkerton's girlfriend Cio-Cio-San |
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OPERA |
1984-09-11 |
#2 |