From outside, Pinkerton cries, " Butterfly!

However, Pinkerton tells Sharpless that he will do " no great harm, even if Butterfly falls in love.

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.

Suzuki tells Butterfly that their money has almost run out and, if Pinkerton does not return quickly, they will suffer in a bad way.

Butterfly sees Yamadori and asks him if he is not going to give up pursuing her, because " You have already had many different wives.

" Sharpless continues, " If she still loves me, if she awaits me, I place myself in your hands so that you may carefully and considerately prepare her …" Butterfly exclaims, " He is coming!

" Sharpless asks her gently, " Butterfly, what would you do if he never returned?

Butterfly shows Sharpless her child, and Sharpless asks if Pinkerton knows.

Finally, Butterfly tells Kate, " I will give my child to her only if he comes himself.

Swept away by the peaceful, silent town of Butterfly Ville, Mi-heun and her family begin a new life as if nothing had happened.

Pinkerton tells Goro to bring Butterfly to him.

Pinkerton admits to Sharpless that he does not know whether he is really in love or just infatuated, but he is bewitched with Butterfly ’ s innocence, charm and beauty, like a butterfly fluttering around and then landing with silent grace, so beautiful " that I must have her, even though I injure her butterfly wings ".

Sharpless tells Pinkerton that he heard Butterfly speak, when she visited the Consulate, and he asks Pinkerton not to pluck off her delicate wings.

" Goro re-enters to tell Pinkerton and Sharpless that Butterfly ’ s friends are coming.

Butterfly greets Pinkerton, who asks about her difficult climb up the hill.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton and Sharpless that her family is from Nagasaki and was once very wealthy.

Meanwhile, Butterfly tells her relatives how much she loves Pinkerton.

Butterfly ’ s relatives say that he ’ s like a king, so rich and so handsome, and then, at a sign from Butterfly, all her friends and relatives bow to Pinkerton and walk out to the garden.

Pinkerton takes Butterfly ’ s hand and leads her into the house.

From her sleeve, Butterfly brings out to show Pinkerton all of her treasures, which include only a few handkerchiefs, a mirror, a sash, and other trinkets.

Goro whispers to Pinkerton that the case contains a " gift " from the Mikado to Butterfly ’ s father, inviting him to commit seppuku.

Butterfly continues to show Pinkerton her other little treasures, including several little statues: " They are the spirits of my ancestors.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton that yesterday, in secret and without telling her uncle, who is a Buddhist priest, the Bonze, she went to the Consulate, where she abandoned her ancestral religion and converted to Pinkerton ’ s religion.

The Commissioner conducts the brief ceremony and witnesses Pinkerton and Butterfly sign the official papers.

Pinkerton, Butterfly and their guests continue the celebration with many toasts.

He stands over Butterfly, shouting his curses at her, when Pinkerton intervenes to stop him.

) Pinkerton tells Butterfly that " All your relatives and all the priests in Japan are not worth the tears from your loving, beautiful eyes.

) Pinkerton tells Butterfly that the " Night is falling ", and Butterfly answers that " with it comes darkness and peace.

Pinkerton watches Butterfly, as she watches him, but her happiness is tempered, as " still the angry voice curses me.

) Pinkerton admires the beautiful Butterfly and tells her, " you have not yet told me that you love me.

Suzuki tells Butterfly that foreign husbands never return to their Japanese wives, but Butterfly replies furiously that Pinkerton had assured her, on the very last morning they were together, " Oh, Butterfly, my little wife, I shall return with the roses, when the earth is full of joy, when the robin makes his nest.

* Butterfly on the Wheel ( 1914 ; never produced )

His best known songs include Old House at Home, I'd be a Butterfly, Oh, no, we never mention him, She wore a Wreath of Roses, The Mistletoe Bough, and Long, Long Ago.

There are no historical references to the term and few antique weapons have been found with a shape that resembles a " nandao ". Therefore, it can never have been a major form as widely used as niuweidao, yanmaodao, liuyedao and the Butterfly swords.

Due to current conflict with Columbia, " Butterfly " was never issued a commercial release, therefore hindering its charting ability.

At the Metropolitan Opera alone, these are the operas she performed but never recorded commercially: Verdi's Ernani, Macbeth, Il trovatore, Don Carlos ( the Celestial Voice as well as Elizabeth, both in Italian ), and Aida ; Wagner's Lohengrin and Der Ring des Nibelungen ( featured roles in all four operas ); Ponchielli's La Gioconda ; Giordano's Andrea Chénier ; and Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Turandot ( as Liù ; she played the title role in Toronto ).

After Hairspray she returned to the United States and joined an Atlanta musical group Butterfly Stitch which released an EP and live album.

She returned to Philadelphia in 1967 to sing the title roles in Puccini's Tosca and Madama Butterfly and to the Met to sing three Verdi heroines: Leonora in Il trovatore opposite Richard Tucker as Manrico, Desdemona in Otello opposite James McCracken in the title role, and Violetta in La traviata with Tucker and George Shirley alternating as Alfredo.

Cynthia has also returned to Shanghai now as a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group against the Japanese occupation, led by Xie Ming ( Feng Yuanzheng ).

She returned to Japan in 1985 for her much-celebrated first performance at home with the Fujiwara Opera troupe, as Butterfly in Puccini's " Madama Butterfly.

She returned to Naples the following year for performances of Madama Butterfly and Eugene Onegin.

O ' Mara gave many private concerts at the beginning of the new century, but happily returned to opera as leading tenor with the Moody-Manners Opera Company in London from 1902 to 1908, performing in Maritana, Cavalleria, Faust, Lohengrin, Pagliacci, Il trovatore, Carmen, Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, and the first English-language production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly ( 1907 ), also performing extensively in Ireland with the company.