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
"Madame Butterfly" is a short story by American lawyer and writer John Luther Long. It is based on the recollections of Long's sister, Jennie Correll, who had been to Japan with her husband, a Methodi
Madama Butterfly
…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" (1898) by John Luther Long, which, in turn, was based on stories told to Long by his sister Jennie Correll, and on the semi-autobiographical 1887…
Cover of a 1903 edition
Cho-Cho-San shows her baby to Suzuki.
The marriage broker fixes a date for Cho-Cho-San to meet Prince Yamadori.
Cho-Cho-San dressed in her finery for the meeting with Yamadori.