She responds to Kate’s request to give her the child by saying that Pinkerton should return in half an hour to collect their son. Cio-Cio-San appears from her bedroom and sees Kate. Suzuki tells Pinkerton that Cio-Cio-San waited for him for three years upon which he is overcome with guilt and flees. Sharpless asks Suzuki to persuade Cio-Cio-San to entrust Pinkerton’s new wife with her child. Suzuki finds Sharpless and Pinkerton with his American wife Kate in front of the house. She withdraws to her bedroom with her son to sleep. Night slowly falls.Ĭio-Cio-San waited the whole night in vain. Dressed in her bridal outfit, she waits with Suzuki and her son for Pinkerton’s return. In happy anticipation, Cio-Cio-San and Suzuki adorn the house with flowers. A canon shot announces the arrival of a ship – the long-awaited M.S. Sharpless wants to tell Cio-Cio-San the truth but then she introduces her three-year-old son to him and asks him to tell Pinkerton about him. She holds on to her belief in Pinkerton’s firm loyalty and American marriage law. Cio-Cio-San brusquely rejects Yamadori’s marriage request. Goro joins them and says that Cio-Cio-San should marry the well-off Yamadori as, according to Japanese law, marriage ends in divorce the moment the husband leaves his wife. Counsel Sharpless brings a letter from Pinkerton he is to prepare her for the fact that Pinkerton has, meanwhile, married in America but Cio-Cio-Sans’s exuberance prevents him telling her this. She ignores Suzuki’s interjection that she has never heard of a foreign husband returning to his wife in Japan. It has been three years since Pinkerton returned to his American homeland with the promise to return when the »robin’s nest« and Cio-Cio-San has been waiting patiently since then. In the evening mood, both proclaim their love to each other. Suzuki, a friend of many years of Cio-Cio-San, Pinkerton and Cio-Cio-San remain. Pinkerton asks the angry guests to leave.

After the wedding, Cio-Cio-San’s uncle, the priest Bonzo, storms into the garden and denounces the bride for converting to Christianity. Finally, Cio-Cio-San and her family, accompanied by several geishas, enter. He highlights the cultural differences to the young American and warns him not to take the marriage lightly which can be short-term according to Japanese custom. They are joined by the American counsel in Nagasaki, Sharpless. The matchmaker, Goro, explains the building design of the new residence to Pinkerton who is not familiar with this. Pinkerton and the 15-year-old geisha Cio-Cio-San, daughter of a samurai who has fallen out of favour. A wedding is to be celebrated in the garden of a hill-side residence with view of the port: the wedding of the American marine officer B. Pinkertons Sohn (Erwachsen) Alexander Ritter.Kaiserlicher Kommissar Rupert Grössinger.

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