Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa, Plácido Domingo, David Belasco, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Mirella Freni, Christa Ludwig, Robert Kerns, Jean-Louis Martinoty

Madama Butterfly is a TV movie starring Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo, and Christa Ludwig. A young Japanese geisha clings to the belief that her arrangement with a visiting American naval officer is a loving and permanent marriage.