Glover Garden
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Glover Garden is a park in Nagasaki, Japan, built for Thomas Blake Glover, a Scottish merchant who contributed to the modernization of Japan in shipbuilding, coal mining, and other fields. In it stand
Glover House known as Ipponmatsu (Single Pine Tree) from a drawing of 1863. The tree was chopped down in the early 20th century.
Koi pond in front of the Glover residence
Overlooking Nagasaki harbor
The garden
Madama Butterfly
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Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The Schickling catalog number is SC 74.
Glover Garden
…It has been designated as an Important Cultural Asset. As the house and its surroundings are reminiscent of Puccini's opera, it is also known as the "Madame Butterfly House." Statues of Puccini and diva Miura Tamaki, famed for her role as Cio-Cio-san, stand in the park near the house. This house was also the venue…
Original 1904 poster by Adolfo Hohenstein
Solomiya Krushelnytska as Butterfly (c. 1904).
Set design by Bailly and Jambon for Act I in the 1906 production
Butterfly and her son 'Trouble' (Dolore) in 1917