Madame Butterfly (short story)
"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 Methodist missionary. It was first published in Century Magazine in 1898 and adapted for the stage in 1900. Giacomo Puccini based his 1904 opera Madama Butterfly on the play.
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.
Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
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