Title: Madama Butterfly
Description: New York City Opera Company, Laszlo Halasz, artistic and musical director, Fall season, 1949, New York City Opera Company, thirty-second performance by the New York City Opera Company of "Madama Butterfly," an opera in two acts and three scenes, music by Giacomo Puccini, libretto founded upon the book of John L. Long and the drama of David Belasco, conductor: Julius Rudel, staged by Eugene Bryden, stage director: John S. White, scenic designer: H.A. Condell.