Editing Madama Butterfly (section)

== Roles ==
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|+{{sronly|Roles, voice types, premiere cast}}
!Role
![[Voice type]]
!Premiere cast, 17 February 1904<br />Conductor: [[Cleofonte Campanini]]<ref>{{Almanacco|dmy=17 February 1904|match=Madama Butterfly}}</ref>
!Brescia cast, 28 May 1904<br />Conductor: Cleofonte Campanini<ref>{{Almanacco|dmy=28 May 1904|match=Madama Butterfly}}</ref>
|-
|Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)
|[[soprano]]
|[[Rosina Storchio]]
|[[Solomiya Krushelnytska]]
|-
|Suzuki, her maid
|[[mezzo-soprano|mezzo]]
|Giuseppina Giaconia
|{{ill|Giovanna Lucaszewska|fr}}<br />
|-
|B.F. Pinkerton, Lt. in the U.S. Navy<ref name="CH">Hopkinson, Cecil. [https://archive.org/details/bwb_O8-DFP-784/page/75/mode/1up A Bibliography of the Works of Giacomo Puccini 1858–1924]. Broude Brothers, 1968.</ref>{{rp|73–4}}
|[[tenor]]
|[[Giovanni Zenatello]]
|Giovanni Zenatello
|-
|Sharpless, U.S. consul at Nagasaki
|[[baritone]]
|[[Giuseppe De Luca]]
|{{ill|Virgilio Bellatti|fr}}
|-
|Goro, a matchmaker
|tenor
|{{ill|Gaetano Pini-Corsi|fr}}
|Gaetano Pini-Corsi
|-
|Prince Yamadori
|baritone
|[[Emilio Venturini]]
|Fernando Gianoli Galletti
|-
|The [[Bhikkhu|Bonze]], Cio-Cio-san's uncle
|[[Bass (voice type)|bass]]
|{{ill|Paolo Wulman|fr}}
|Giuseppe Tisci-Rubini
|-
|Yakusidé, Cio-Cio-san's uncle
|bass
|Antonio Volponi
|Fernando Gianoli Galletti
|-
|The Imperial Commissioner
|bass
|Aurelio Viale
|Luigi Bolpagni
|-
|The Official Registrar
|bass
|Ettore Gennari
|Anselmo Ferrari
|-
|Cio-Cio-san's mother
|mezzo
|Tina Alasia
|Serena Pattini
|-
|The aunt
|soprano
| ?
|Adele Bergamasco
|-
|The cousin
|soprano
|Palmira Maggi
|Carla Grementieri
|-
|Kate Pinkerton
|mezzo
|Margherita Manfredi
|Emma Decima
|-
|Dolore ("Trouble", "Pain" in italian), Cio-Cio-san's son
|silent
|Ersilia Ghissoni
|Ersilia Ghissoni
|-
| colspan="4"|Cio-Cio-san's relatives and friends and servants
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