Madame Butterfly

Also Ma·dama Butterfly

noun

1. an opera (1904) by Giacomo Puccini.

Madame Butterfly

1. An opera by Giacomo Puccini. The title character, a Japanese woman, is betrothed to an American naval officer stationed in Japan. He leaves for the United States, promising to return, but comes back three years later married to an American woman. Butterfly, disgraced, stabs herself; the officer begs her forgiveness, and she dies in his arms.

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Opera become the most supportive American opera company for Wilson, staging his transformative productions of “Madame Butterfly” and “Parsifal,” along with presenting “Einstein on the Beach” at UCLA.

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She went to dozens of auditions but recalled that "a fat soprano singing Madame Butterfly rather badly always won".

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The company also showed an unexpected serious side, remounting its production of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” sung in English and Japanese.

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Los Angeles Opera opens its fall season with a production of Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” that sets the story on a 1930s Hollywood film set.

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Madame Butterfly, first won hearts in an 1898 short story by an American lawyer, then in a Broadway play two years later before becoming immortal thanks to Puccini’s 1904 Italian opera.

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