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Geraldine Farra as Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera about 1907

Madama Butterfly is an Italian opera in three acts with music by Giacomo Puccini. The libretto was written by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. It was based on a play by David Belasco. The opera was first performed in Milan, Italy, on February 17, 1904. Its revised version was performed in Brescia, on May 28, 1904. Although a fiasco at its premiere, it soon established itself in its revised version as one of the most beloved of operas.

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  • The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, Wings Books, 1989.

Images for kids

  • Solomiya Krushelnytska Butterfly

    Solomiya Krushelnytska as Butterfly, c. 1904

  • Madame Butterfly Performance Poster in 2021

    Madame Butterfly Performance Poster in 2021

  • Collina presso Nagasaki, bozzetto di Alexandre Bailly, Marcel Jambon per Madama Butterfly (1906) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON000079 - Restoration

    Set design by Bailly and Jambon for Act I in the 1906 production

  • Anna May Wong holds child in The Toll of the Sea

    Anna May Wong holding the child in the 1922 film The Toll of the Sea

See also

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