"Madame Butterfly" Cartoon

The cartoon "Madame Butterfly" created by Pjotr Sapegin is the perfect example in how opera music can capture your emotions. Even though there is no talking in the entire ten minute cartoon you can tell exactly what is going on, and you know exactly what the mood throughout the cartoon is. Whether it went from hopeful, when the Asian woman was waiting for the sailor to return back to her. Passionate, when the sailor and the Asian woman were making love; or even pure sadness, when the sailor returned with his family of all the different colored children he had taken from the women he had gotten pregnant, and then took her child as well. Opera is so fascinating and diverse that it can take you from being extremely happy to extremely sad. This cartoon is a great example on why you don't need speaking in opera's, because the music tells the story for you.