Sony Classical (Firm)

An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl known as Butterfly and marries her, with no intention of ever taking her home to America.

Presents cellist Yo-Yo Ma in artistic collaboration with garden designer Julie Moir Messervy while performing Bach's Cello Suite no. 1 and a 3-D animation of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's "carceri" (prison) etchings set to Bach's Cello Suite no. 2.

Features opera divas Kathleen Battle and Frederica von Stade alongside jazz legend Wynton Marsalis. Among the featured composers are Engelbert Humperdinck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mel Torme, and Franz Zaver Gruber.