Take in Madama Butterfly with a companion at the Metropolitan Opera on Friday, December 2, 2011 at 10:30am  - Parterre Box 19, Seats 2 & 5.

Anthony Minghella’s breathtakingly beautiful staging returns with Patricia Racette and Liping Zhang alternating as the tragic heroine. Robert Dean Smith and Marcello Giordani share the role of the faithless Pinkerton and Plácido Domingo conducts.