| Madama Butterfly |
| "The drama has to run to the end without interruption, closed, efficient, terrible!" Puccini wrote to Ricordi, adding that Butterfly would represent "a new type of opera." (Source) |
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| The composer himself proclaimed, "The only music I can make is that of small things," although he admired the grander stylistic abilities of Verdi and Wagner. Despite that admiration, Puccini chose to concentrate on life's familiar bittersweet passions and intense emotional storms. (Source) |
| It was Toscanini who conducted the famous opening night of Madama Butterfly , which ran in its original form for that one performance only. After serious reworking, including changing the basic framework from two acts to three and replacing some objectionable arias with more melodic ones, Butterfly triumphed in a new opening under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. (Source) |
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| Puccini wove traditional Japanese music into his score. |
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| Roles Cio-Cio San (Madama Butterfly) spinto soprano Suzuki, her maid lyric mezzo-soprano B. F. Pinkerton, Lieutenant in the United States Navy spinto tenor Sharpless, United States consul at Nagasaki baritone Goro, a matchmaker tenor Prince Yamadori tenor The Bonze, Cio-Cio San's uncle bass Yakuside, Cio-Cio San's uncle bass The Imperial Commissioner bass The Official Registrar bass Cio-Cio San's mother mezzo-soprano The aunt soprano The cousin soprano Kate Pinkerton mezzo-soprano Dolore ('Sorrow'), Cio-Cio San's child silent Cio-Cio San's relations and friends and servants |