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Madama Butterfly

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Madama Butterfly

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opera by Giacomo Puccini

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"Madama Butterfly" is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini that tells the tragic story of a young Japanese woman and her doomed relationship with an American naval officer. The work has become one of the most frequently performed operas in the world and is considered a masterpiece of the genre.

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Has part
Un bel dì, vedremo
Genre
tragedy
Country of origin
Italy
Screenwriter
John Luther Long
Composer
Giacomo Puccini
Narrative location
Nagasaki
Librettist
Giuseppe Giacosa
Dedicated to
Elena of Montenegro
Image
Collina presso Nagasaki, bozzetto di Alexandre Bailly, Marcel Jambon per Madama Butterfly (1906) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON000079.jpg
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Commons category
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
date of first performance
1904-02-17
production date
1903-00-00
inception
1903-12-27
set in period
Meiji era
title
Madama Butterfly
number of parts of this work
3
language of work or name
Italian
location of first performance
La Scala
form of creative work
opera
publication date
1904-02-15
copyright status
public domain
native label
Madama Butterfly
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Butterfly Lovers
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Encyclopedic overview

Madama Butterfly ( Italian pronunciation: [maˈdaːma ˈbatterflai]; 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" (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 French novel Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti. Long's version was dramatized by David Belasco as the one-act play Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan, which, after premiering in New York in 1900, moved to London, where Puccini saw it in the summer of that year.

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