Butterfly: Japanese woman. Wife of Pinkerton.
Pinkerton: American man. Husband of Butterfly.
Suzuki: Maid of Butterfly.
4. Amore o grillo ("Love or fancy")
"I must have her. Even if I injure her butterfly wings."
13. Bimba, Bimba, non piangere ("Sweetheart, sweetheart, do not weep")
"All your relatives and all the priests in Japan are not worth the tears from your loving, beautiful eyes."
14. Bimba dagli occhi ("Sweetheart, with eyes...")
Pinkerton admires the beautiful Butterfly and tells her, "you have not yet told me that you love me." Butterfly replies that she does not want to say the words, "for fear of dying at hearing them!"
15. Vogliatemi bene ("Love me, please.")
Butterfly pleads with Pinkerton to "Love me, please." She asks whether it is true that, in foreign lands, a man will catch a butterfly and pin its wings to a table. Pinkerton admits that it is true but explains, "Do you know why? So that she’ll not fly away."
Act 2
16. E Izaghi e Izanami ("And Izanagi and Izanami")
Suzuki kneels in front of a Buddha, praying that Butterfly will stop crying. Butterfly hears and tells her that the Japanese gods are fat and lazy, and that the American God will answer quickly, if only he knows where they are living.
22. Ah! M’ha scordata? ("Ah! He has forgotten me?")
"that trade which leads to dishonor. Death! Death! Never more to dance! Rather would I cut short my life! Ah! Death!"
Act 3
34. Con onor muore ("To die with honor")
Butterfly reads the inscription on her father’s knife: "Who cannot live with honor must die with honor." Butterfly’s child enters, but Suzuki does not. Butterfly tells her child not to feel sorrow for his mother’s desertion but to keep a faint memory of his mother’s face. She bids him farewell, seats him on the floor and blindfolds him gently. She gives him a miniature American flag to wave in greeting to his father, which he does, blindfolded, throughout the following action. Butterfly takes the knife and walks behind the screen. The knife clatters to the floor as Butterfly staggers from behind the screen with a scarf around her neck. She kisses her child and collapses. From outside, Pinkerton cries, "Butterfly!" and rushes in - but it is too late. Butterfly is dead.
"I must have her. Even if I injure her butterfly wings."
13. Bimba, Bimba, non piangere ("Sweetheart, sweetheart, do not weep")
"All your relatives and all the priests in Japan are not worth the tears from your loving, beautiful eyes."
14. Bimba dagli occhi ("Sweetheart, with eyes...")
Pinkerton admires the beautiful Butterfly and tells her, "you have not yet told me that you love me." Butterfly replies that she does not want to say the words, "for fear of dying at hearing them!"
15. Vogliatemi bene ("Love me, please.")
Butterfly pleads with Pinkerton to "Love me, please." She asks whether it is true that, in foreign lands, a man will catch a butterfly and pin its wings to a table. Pinkerton admits that it is true but explains, "Do you know why? So that she’ll not fly away."
Act 2
16. E Izaghi e Izanami ("And Izanagi and Izanami")
Suzuki kneels in front of a Buddha, praying that Butterfly will stop crying. Butterfly hears and tells her that the Japanese gods are fat and lazy, and that the American God will answer quickly, if only he knows where they are living.
22. Ah! M’ha scordata? ("Ah! He has forgotten me?")
"that trade which leads to dishonor. Death! Death! Never more to dance! Rather would I cut short my life! Ah! Death!"
Act 3
34. Con onor muore ("To die with honor")
Butterfly reads the inscription on her father’s knife: "Who cannot live with honor must die with honor." Butterfly’s child enters, but Suzuki does not. Butterfly tells her child not to feel sorrow for his mother’s desertion but to keep a faint memory of his mother’s face. She bids him farewell, seats him on the floor and blindfolds him gently. She gives him a miniature American flag to wave in greeting to his father, which he does, blindfolded, throughout the following action. Butterfly takes the knife and walks behind the screen. The knife clatters to the floor as Butterfly staggers from behind the screen with a scarf around her neck. She kisses her child and collapses. From outside, Pinkerton cries, "Butterfly!" and rushes in - but it is too late. Butterfly is dead.
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