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Madama Butterfly
Opera in Three Acts

Giacomo Puccini, Music
Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica, Libretto

Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Mechetti, Conductor

Cast of Characters
Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San)		Gitta-Maria Sjoberg
B.F. Pinkerton, Lieutenant, United States Navy	Scott Piper
Sharpless, American Consul at Nagasaki	Frank Hernandez
Suzuki, maid to Cio-Cio-San		Jane Dutton
Goro, a marriage broker			Jason Ferrante
The Bonze, a Buddhist priest		Gustav Andreassen
Prince Yamadori, a suiter of Cio-Cio-San	Gerald Dolter
Kate Pinkerton			Lexa Ferrill
The Imperial Commissioner			Gerald Dolter
Official Registrar			Jim Rhodes
Mother of Cio-Cio-San			Brandy Eckert
Aunt of Cio-Cio-San			Dorothy Jean Bush
Cousin of Cio-Cio-San			Carole Vanderhoef Banks
Yakuside, uncle of Cio-Cio-San		David Edwards
Trouble, Cio-Cio-San's child		Miles Every

Cio-Cio-San's friends and relatives; geishas, servants, and sailors

Jacksonville Symphony Chorus
Jon O. Carlson, Director 

Supernumeraries
John Balmforth, David Jackson, John Billings, Mike Klein, Cherie Billings, 
Jay Marshall, Robert Carroll, III, Betty Saunders, Bill Cosnotti, 
Kathy Silbernagel, Annie Gaybis, George Trotter, Clark Gaylord


Stage Director			Dugg McDonough
Lighting Designer 			Nick Ciccarello
Technical Director			Keith Christopher
Production Manager			Kevin Roberts
Stage Manager			Jill Hermes
Assistant Stage Manager			Christopher P. Farrell
Master Carpenter			Andy Way
Wardrobe Coordinators			Camilla Pitts, Dorinda Grogan
Make-up/Wig Coordinators			Don and Linda Guillot
Rehearsal Accompanist			Scott Watkins
Title Operator			Scott Gregg
Properties				Robin McMahon
JSO Stage Manager			Mary Hess
SMG Stage Manager			Paul Sullivan

Sets designed for the New Orleans Opera by G. Alan Rusnak.
Costumes designed for the Utah Symphony and Opera by Susan Memmott-Allred.
Projected Titles provided by arrangement with Bayshore Opera Translations 
Translation by Lindley L. Becker

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The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra presents MADAMA BUTTERFLY
Saturday, February 18, 2006 at 8 p.m. at the Moran Theater; Sponsored by the Julius N. Frankel Foundation

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