There Really Was A Madam Butterfly: Madama Butterfly
Clip: Season 33 | 4m 44s
The tragic story of the son of a geisha and a Scots industrialist. Susan Graham narrates.
Does life really imitate art? Susan Graham, host of Live From Lincoln Center's broadcast of the New York City Opera production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, makes the case. With rare photographs of World War II-era Nagasaki, she tells the tragic real-life story of Tom Glover, son of a Japanese geisha and a Scottish industrialist.
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Live From Lincoln Center is made possible with support from the Family of Robert Wood Johnson III, the Audrey and Martin Gruss Foundation, The Robert and Renée Belfer Family Foundation, Mercedes T. Bass, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
There Really Was A Madam Butterfly: Madama Butterfly
Clip: Season 33 | 4m 44s
Does life really imitate art? Susan Graham, host of Live From Lincoln Center's broadcast of the New York City Opera production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, makes the case. With rare photographs of World War II-era Nagasaki, she tells the tragic real-life story of Tom Glover, son of a Japanese geisha and a Scottish industrialist.
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