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"Madama Butterfly" by Giacomo PucciniSan Diego Civic Theatre1100 Third AvenueSan Diego, CA 92101Friday, April 26, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 2 p.m.Amidst the cherry blossoms of Nagasaki, a young woman makes a stand to support herself as a geisha after her disgraced father takes his life. Fate intervenes and brings her an American Naval Officer and she falls desperately in love. Unaware she is just a distraction to him, she believes they are married and renounces her religion as he sails away promising to return. And he does return, ready to take their child and raise ...

From the San Diego Opera:"Tosca" is Giacomo Puccini’s gripping drama filled with torture, treachery, lust, execution and suicide.Scarpia, the chief of police, wants only two things: to recapture the escaped prisoner Angelotti and to seduce Tosca, an opera singer of incredible voice and beauty. Tosca is in love with Cavaradossi, an artist and sympathizer of Angelotti. After arresting Cavaradossi for harboring Angelotti, Scarpia plays with Tosca’s emotions, promising to free Cavaradossi if Tosca will succumb to Scarpia’s desires. But Tosca has a plan of her own, all of which unfo...