Madama Butterfly 蝶々夫人 in Japanese and English

So what what if a brash American naval officer and a young Japanese girl met and fell in love How would they communicate (Certainly not in Italian ) In POPs most ambitious production to date, Artistic Director Josh Shaws longtime dream of a bilingual Madama Butterfly comes to life at The Aratani Theatre in Little Tokyo. With a new libretto by Josh Shaw and Eiki Isomura, all Japanese roles will be sung in Japanese and all American roles will be sung in English. This is a coproduction with Opera in the Heights (Houston). This production is sponsored in part by an Innovations Grant from Opera America. もしもし明治時代にアメリカ海軍士官が日本人の少女と出会い恋に落ちたとしたら二人はいったいどうや br, br,