GENRE: Opera
RATING: NR
RUNNING TIME: 2:45
STARRING: Patricia Racette, Marcello Giordani
DIRECTOR: Patrick Summers
PRODUCER(S): Metropolitan Opera
WRITER(S): Puccini
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Anthony Minghella’s beautiful, atmospheric production of Puccini’s tragedy returns to cinemas this summer in a stunning performance recorded live from the Metropolitan Opera in 2009. Soprano Patricia Racette stars as Cio-Cio-San, the trusting and innocent young geisha who disastrously falls in love with American Navy lieutenant B. F. Pinkerton, sung by tenor Marcello Giordani. Patrick Summers conducts.