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.
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
Giacomo Puccini
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Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Widely regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verd
Madama Butterfly
…Madama Butterfly (Italian pronunciation: ; Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The Schickling catalog number is SC 74. It is based on the short story "Madame Butterfly…
Puccini in 1908
Puccini's birthplace in the Corte San Lorenzo, Lucca; the building presently houses a museum dedicated to his life and œuvre
Puccini photographed with his piano in 1900
Original poster for Puccini's Tosca