madame butterfly
Music 101
October 26, 2013
“Madama Butterfly” Madama Butterfly is a very tragic story of love and loss, devotion and betrayal. Anyone that has been betrayed by their lover can relate to this story. On a very large hill in Nagasaki, japan a very handsome lieutenant by the name of Pinkerton, is looking over a home he has recently rented from a real estate agent by the name of Goro. Goro is not only a real estate agent ,but also a marriage broker Goro has made sure that along with Pinkertons new home that he, also has three servants and Cio-Cio San. A.k.a. Madama Butterfly a wife that he has entered into a marriage contract with. While he is very infatuated with butterfly his dream is to marry an American wife back home in the United States.
Pinkerton and Madama butterfly have a lifetime contract it renews from month to month, and they are allowed to divorce at any time.US Consul Sharpless warns him that Madama butterfly may have more feelings for him than he does for her and, to be careful with her feelings Pinkerton ignores this advice. Butterfly informs Pinkerton that her family use to be wealthy, however now they have fell on hard times. She became a geisha so that she could help provide for her family. She has renounced her faith, and now she is a Christian, this enrages her family and they dis own her for life. Pinkerton consoles her while she is in tears, and she finds comfort in his loving arms.
Three years now has passed and Pinkerton has yet to return to Japan with her. One of the servants Suki, is praying to Buddha that he will dry Madama tears, after hearing her prayer Butterfly tells Suki that her Japanese Gods are worthless to her, she relies on her Christian God to bring her husband back home. Suki informs her mistress that they have little money left, and soon it is going to run out. Madama advises her servant not to despair that her husband has pre-arranged to provide for them all. Pinkerton told her that one day he would return
October 26, 2013
“Madama Butterfly” Madama Butterfly is a very tragic story of love and loss, devotion and betrayal. Anyone that has been betrayed by their lover can relate to this story. On a very large hill in Nagasaki, japan a very handsome lieutenant by the name of Pinkerton, is looking over a home he has recently rented from a real estate agent by the name of Goro. Goro is not only a real estate agent ,but also a marriage broker Goro has made sure that along with Pinkertons new home that he, also has three servants and Cio-Cio San. A.k.a. Madama Butterfly a wife that he has entered into a marriage contract with. While he is very infatuated with butterfly his dream is to marry an American wife back home in the United States.
Pinkerton and Madama butterfly have a lifetime contract it renews from month to month, and they are allowed to divorce at any time.US Consul Sharpless warns him that Madama butterfly may have more feelings for him than he does for her and, to be careful with her feelings Pinkerton ignores this advice. Butterfly informs Pinkerton that her family use to be wealthy, however now they have fell on hard times. She became a geisha so that she could help provide for her family. She has renounced her faith, and now she is a Christian, this enrages her family and they dis own her for life. Pinkerton consoles her while she is in tears, and she finds comfort in his loving arms.
Three years now has passed and Pinkerton has yet to return to Japan with her. One of the servants Suki, is praying to Buddha that he will dry Madama tears, after hearing her prayer Butterfly tells Suki that her Japanese Gods are worthless to her, she relies on her Christian God to bring her husband back home. Suki informs her mistress that they have little money left, and soon it is going to run out. Madama advises her servant not to despair that her husband has pre-arranged to provide for them all. Pinkerton told her that one day he would return