"Un bel dì, vedremo" is a soprano aria from the opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung by Cio-Cio San on stage with Suzuki, as sh
1904 poster for Madama Butterfly by Leopoldo Metlicovitz
Nagasaki Harbour, the scene of Cio-Cio San's reverie, in 1900
Luigi Illica was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini, Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers. His most famo