Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast February 17, 1904 (Conductor: Cleofonte Campanini) |
Brescia cast May 28, 1904 (Conductor: Cleofonte Campanini) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly) | soprano | Rosina Storchio | Solomiya Krushelnytska |
| Suzuki, her maid | mezzo-soprano | Giuseppina Giaconia | Giovanna Lucacevska |
| B. F. Pinkerton, Lieutenant in the United States Navy | tenor | Giovanni Zenatello | Giovanni Zenatello |
| Sharpless, United States consul at Nagasaki | baritone | Giuseppe De Luca | Virgilio Bellatti |
| Goro, a matchmaker | tenor | Gaetano Pini-Corsi | Gaetano Pini-Corsi |
| Prince Yamadori | tenor | Emilio Venturini | |
| The Bonze, Cio-Cio San's uncle | bass | Paolo Wulmann | |
| Yakuside, Cio-Cio San's uncle | bass | Antonio Volpini | |
| The Imperial Commissioner | bass | Viale | |
| The Official Registrar | bass | Gennari | |
| Cio-Cio San's mother | mezzo-soprano | Tina Alasia | |
| The aunt | soprano | Ghissoni | |
| The cousin | soprano | Palmira Maggi | |
| Kate Pinkerton | mezzo-soprano | Manfredi | |
| Dolore ('Sorrow'), Cio-Cio San's child | silent | ||
| Cio-Cio San's relations and friends and servants | |||
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