• ' • jHOI WW x ' . • :; • .-/ -- '«-.. iVSii BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Seiji Ozawa, Music Director 25TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON Bernard Haitink, Principal Guest Conductor One Hundred and Eighteenth Season, 1998-99 Saturday, February 20, at 8 Wednesday, February 24, at 8 Saturday, February 27, at 8 SEIJI OZAWA conducting GIACOMO PUCCINI Madama Butterfly Opera in two acts to a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica Cio-Cio-San (Madam Butterfly) PAULA DELLIGATTI, soprano Suzuki, her maid ZHENG CAO, mezzo-soprano F.B. Pinkerton, Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy LUIS LIMA, tenor Sharpless, U.S. consul at Nagasaki LUCIO GALLO, baritone Goro, a marriage broker JEAN-PAUL FOUCHECOURT, tenor Prince Yamadori CHRISTOPHEREN NOMURA, baritone The Bonze 1 > CLAYTON BRAINERD, bass Cio_c«,_San s undes f Yakuside J I SCOTT TOPERZER, bass The Imperial Commissioner VITALI ROZYNKO, baritone The Official Registrar DAVID MAZZOTTA, bass* Kate Pinkerton RINAT SHAHAM, mezzo-soprano Cio-Cio-San's mother MARY WESTBROOK-GEHA, mezzo-soprano Cio-Cio-San's aunt TRACEY FULGAN, mezzo-soprano* Cio-Cio-San's cousin LORENZEE COLE, soprano* Cio-Cio-San's child ("Sorrow") ALEXANDER UGORJI Cio-Cio-San's relations, friends, and servants TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS, JOHN OLIVER, conductor *Tanglewood Festival Chorus member Concert staging by DAVID KNEUSS Set design by JOHN MICHAEL DEEGAN and SARAH G. CONLY Costumes for Butterfly and Suzuki by HANAE MORI These performances will end about 11. RCA, Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, Telarc, Sony Classical/CBS Masterworks, Angel/EMI, London /Decca, Erato, Hyperion, and New World records Baldwin piano 12.