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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » See also 1 mention » Add other authors (13 possible) Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Illica, Luigi | Librettist | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Giacosa, Giuseppe | Librettist | main author | all editions | confirmed | Puccini, Giacomo | Composer | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Elkin, R.H. | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Gutman, John | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Jones, Gwyneth | Introduction | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Martin, Ruth | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Martin, Thomas | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Mehnert, H. | Translator and editor | secondary author | some editions | confirmed | Stearns, Margaret B. | Translator | secondary author | some editions | confirmed |
▾Series and work relationships Is contained inG. Schirmer's Collection of Opera Librettos: Otello, Madama Butterfly, Die Fledermaus, Tosca, Lucia di Lammermoor, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung, Der Fliegende Holländer, Il Trovatore, Turandot, Samson and Delilah, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, La Bohème, Così fan tutte, Faust by Giuseppe Verdi Is a retelling of
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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"