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Live From Lincoln Center  There Really Was A Madam Butterfly: Madama Butterfly

The tragic story of the son of a geisha and a Scots industrialist. Susan Graham narrates. Details

 

Program: Live From Lincoln Center

Episode: There Really Was A Madam Butterfly: Madama Butterfly

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.

Duration: (4:44)
Premiere Date: 03/20/2008
Episode Expires: Never
TV Rating: TV-G

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