MADAMA BUTTERFLY DUMPS OFFICER BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PINKERTON

Three days ago we attended Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera.

Carolyn found this announcement in today's New York Times.

Amanda Echalaz and Robert Kruedener Meya were married Saturday evening at the New Leaf Restaurant in Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan. Sabrina R. Martin, a friend of the couple who was ordained by the American Marriage Ministries for the occasion, officiated at a ceremony that was led by Francis J. Foley III, a senior judge on the Windham District Superior Court in Willimantic, Conn.

The bride, 37, will continue to use her name professionally. She is an operatic soprano who made her Metropolitan Opera debut in New York on Thursday evening as Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly.” 

Last year, she performed the role at the Lyric Opera in Chicago, and the title role in Puccini’s “Tosca” at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London. She graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England.

She is the daughter of Ann C. Echalaz and Arthur J. Echalaz of Lewes, England.

The groom, 40, is the director of external affairs for the Santa Fe Opera in Santa Fe, N.M., where he oversees fund-raising operations and campaigns. He graduated from Georgetown and received a master’s in arts management from Carnegie Mellon.

He is a son of Dr. Yolanta E. Meya of Nice, France, and Wilhelm W. Meya of Lyme, Conn.

The couple met during the summer of 2012 at the Santa Fe Opera, where Ms. Echalaz made her American operatic debut in the title role of “Tosca,” directed by Stephen Barlow.