Puccini : Madama Butterfly [libretto]
by Luigi Illica (Librettist), Giuseppe Giacosa (Librettist)
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A comprehensive guide to Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with Italian/English side-by side, and over 20 music highlight examples.Tags
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Wikipedia: "an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
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"
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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Black Dog Opera Library : Puccini : Madama Butterfly [book + sound recording] by Black Dog Publishing
Puccini's Operas : La Bohème + Madama Butterfly [books + sound recordings] by Black Dog Publishing (indirect)
G. 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
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- Canonical title
- Puccini : Madama Butterfly [libretto]
- Original title
- Madama Butterfly
- Original publication date
- 1904-2-17
- People/Characters
- Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly); Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton; Sharpless; Kate Pinkerton; Suzuki; Trouble (show all 8); Bonze; Goro
- Important places
- Nagasaki, Japan
- Original language
- Italian
- Disambiguation notice
- 0486244652 Dover
0793526140 Schirmer
0671652931 Simon & Schuster 1987
1176818937 Nabu
3150079497 Reclam German
3150183677 Reclam bilingual
8440217366 Orbus/Fabbri 1994
9050820174 Nederlandse Opera St... (show all)ichting 1988
Belwin Mills 1989
Metropolitan Opera 1950
Metropolitan Opera Association 1954
Metropolitan Opera Record Club 1954
Metropolitan Opera Guild 1992
Opera Theater of Saint Louis 1997 Italian/English
RCA 1963
Ricordi 1904 Milan
Ricordi 1905 Italian/English
Ricordi 1906
Ricordi 1907 Italian/English
Ricordi 1954
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