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| | Review of Madama Butterfly Daytona Beach News |
 | | If "Madama Butterfly" were only about the American's thoughtless destruction of natives in occupied nations, or even about the social conditions that made it possible, the opera's rich, impassioned arias still would make it worth hearing. |
 | | First Coast walked a fine line with its energetic, direct "Butterfly," and it succeeded in cutting to the opera's essentials. |
 | | And, consistently in the three-hour, three-act opera, it enthralls its audience with the sheer, irresistible beauty of the tragedy, as characters express universal emotions too extravagant and too painful to withstand everyday life. |
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