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Why do Cio-Cio-Sanâs relatives leave her after the wedding?
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Madama Butterfly
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, 1908.
Cio-Cio-Sanâs relatives leave her after the wedding because her uncle, the Bonze, discovers that she has renounced her family's Buddhist faith to convert to Christianity, the religion of her new husband, B.F. Pinkerton.12
Upon bursting into the wedding celebration, the Bonze denounces her actions as an abomination. He then commands the other guests to abandon her, and they depart while shouting imprecations at the bride.2