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Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly
(;
Madame Butterfly
) is an
opera
in three acts (originally two) by
Giacomo Puccini
, with an Italian
libretto
by
Luigi Illica
and
Giuseppe Giacosa
. The opera is based in part on the short story "
Madame Butterfly
" (1898) by
John Luther Long
, which in turn was based partially on stories told to Long by his sister Jennie Correll and partially on the semi-autobiographical 1887 French novel
Madame Chrysanthème
by
Pierre Loti
. Long's version was dramatized by
David Belasco
as a one-act play,
Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan
, which, after premiering in New York in 1900, moved on to London, where Puccini saw it in the summer of that year.
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