She raises the cloth. To the last Scarpia has tricked her. He had ordered a real, not a mock execution. Her lover lies at her feet—a corpse.
There are cries from below the platform. Scarpia's murder has been discovered. His myrmidons are hastening to apprehend her. She springs upon the parapet and throws herself into space.
Farrar as Tosca
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
MADAM BUTTERFLY
Opera in two acts, by Giacomo Puccini, words after the story of John Luther Long and the drama of David Belasco by L. Illica and G. Giacosa. English version by Mrs. R.H. Elkin. Produced unsuccessfully, La Scala, Milan, February 17, 1904, with Storchio, Zenatello, and De Luca, conductor Cleofante Campanini. Slightly revised, but with Act II divided into two distinct parts, at Brescia, May 28, 1904, with Krusceniski, Zenatello, and Bellati, when it scored a success. Covent Garden, London, July 10, 1905, with Destinn, Caruso, and Scotti, conductor Campanini. Washington, D.C., October, 1906, in English, by the Savage Opera Company, and by the same company, Garden Theatre, New York, November 12, 1906, with Elsa Szamozy, Harriet Behne, Joseph F. Sheehan, and Winifred Goff; Metropolitan Opera House, New York, February 11, 1907, with Farrar (Butterfly), Homer (Suzuki), Caruso (Pinkerton), Scotti (Sharpless), and Reiss (Goro).
Characters
| Madam Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San) | Soprano | ||
| Suzuki (her servant) | Mezzo-Soprano | ||
| Kate Pinkerton | Mezzo-Soprano | ||
| B.F. Pinkerton, Lieutenant, U.S.N. | Tenor | ||
| Sharpless (U.S. Consul at Nagasaki) | Baritone | ||
| Goro (a marriage broker) | Tenor | ||
| Prince Yamadori | Baritone | ||
| The Bonze (Cio-Cio-San's uncle) | Bass | ||
| Yakuside | Baritone | ||
| The Imperial Commissioner | Bass | ||
| The Official Registrar | } | Members of the Chorus | Baritone |
| Cio-Cio-San's Mother | } | Mezzo-Soprano | |
| The Aunt | } | Mezzo-Soprano | |
| The Cousin | } | Soprano | |
| Trouble (Cio-Cio-San's Child) | |||
Cio-Cio-San's relations and friends. Servants.