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	Madama Butterfly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two acts) by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on the book by John Luther Long and the drama by David Belasco.
		(Butterfly: "Hear what I would tell you.") Pinkerton also learns that she is the daughter of a disgraced samurai who committed seppuku, and so the little girl was sold to be trained as geisha.
		Butterfly is so wild with delight at the sight of her lover's letter that she is unable to comprehend its contents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madame_Butterfly (1415 words)

	Reviews Madame Butterfly
		They meet, fall in love and have a child together—all to the strains of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly." Unfortunately for the diplomat, his butterfly was a man, and the child had been "borrowed" to perpetuate the myth.
		Fifteen-year-old Butterfly, however, thinks the marriage is real: she renounces her faith, her family and settles into life with Pinkerton; with whom she has a child.
		Butterfly could also have come from the memoirs of Jeannie Correll, a missionary in Japan who told her brother, John Luther Long, the story of a girl forsaken by a foreign sailor and her sad death, on which he wrote a story.
	japanreview.net /review_madame.htm (820 words)

	Madame Butterfly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Madam Butterfly was born of a wealthy samurai family in the port of Nagasaki.
		Madam Butterfly was fifteen year years old when American Naval Officer by the name of Pinkerton proposed to her.
		Madam Butterfly plays with the child born from her union with Pinkerton.
	waltm.net /mbutrfly.htm (464 words)

	The Story of Madame Butterfly
		Butterfly, thoroughly upset by this scene, bursts into tears, and her husband, who has watched the departure of his guests from the back, hastens forward to comfort her.
		This provokes Butterfly’s anger, and to warrant her belief in her husband, she quotes his last promise to her, to "return with the roses, the warm and sunny season, when the redbreasted robins are busy nesting." Then she prettily depicts his arrival, acting the scene as though it were really taking place.
		Butterfly is furious, and seizing the dagger that hangs by the shrine, she threatens to kill the broker.
	www.music-with-ease.com /puccini-butterfly-story.html (2983 words)

	Puccini: Madama Butterfly
		Madame Chrysanthème is the first-person narrative of a young naval officer, Pierre, who enters into a temporary marriage with a geisha while stationed in Japan.
		Long's story, "Madam Butterfly," used the French novel as a structural model but his attention is firmly held by the eponymous geisha.
		Butterfly attempts suicide but survives and is bandaged in the amateurish but moving final scene of the story.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/music/NYCO/butterfly/luther.html (836 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Madame Butterfly
		Butterfly yields obediently and is left both to her swan song and to the cold embrace of her prized possession: the sword with which her father had committed seppuku.
		Madame Butterfly is a story of complete self-abnegation, and Butterfly herself exists only as a symbol of fidelity, like a dog.
		Madame Butterfly (Unrated; 129 min.), directed by Frederic Mitterrand, based on the opera by Puccini, photographed by Philippe Welt and starring Ying Huang and Richard Troxell.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.19.96/m-butterfly-9638.html (387 words)

	ipedia.com: Madama Butterfly Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Madame Butterfly is also the name of a 1915 Hollywood motion picture directed by Sidney Olcott and starring Mary Pickford.
		(Butterfly: "Hear what I would tell you.") The marriage contract is signed and the guests are drinking a toast to the young couple, when the bonze, a religious fanatic, uncle of Cio-Cio-San, enters, uttering imprecations against her for renouncing her faith, and induces her relatives to abandon her.
		Butterfly, Butterfly is denounced as a western stereotype of a timid, submissive Asian.
	www.ipedia.com /madama_butterfly.html (787 words)

	Madame Butterfly Story Origins
		Butterfly falls in love with Pinkerton who promises, untruly, to return "when the robins nest again." In the meantime Butterfly has a child she names Trouble - meaning Joy.
		Butterfly attempts suicide, to die with honor, as Pinkerton has taken everything that is precious to her.
		By singing in fluid Italian, Butterfly is finally freed from the pidgin English she had spoken in versions thus far.
	www.balletmet.org /Notes/ButterflyStory.html (1635 words)

	Madame Butterfly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Madame Butterfly is an opera in two acts by Giacomo Puccini, set in Japan.
		(Butterfly: "Hear what I would tell you.") The marriage contract[?] is signed and the guests are drinking a toast to the young couple, when the bonze[?], a religious fanatic, uncle of Cho-Cho-San, enters, uttering imprecations against her for renouncing her faith, and induces her relatives to abandon her.
		Pinkerton is absent in America, having promised to return "When the robins nest again." Suzuki, Madame Butterfly's faithful servant, rightly suspects that this means never, but is upbraided for want of faith by her trusting mistress.
	www.city-search.org /ma/madame-butterfly.html (1035 words)

	Madame Butterfly Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Madame Butterfly - E-text version of the 1903 Grosset and Dunlap edition by John Luther long, complete with scanned versions of the original illustrations.
		Madame Butterfly - A short history of the story by John Luther Long, including the opera by Giacomo Puccini and a review of the 1995 film version from French director FrÃ©dÃ©ric Mitterrand.
		Madame Butterfly Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Styles_Opera_Individual_Operas_Madame_Butterfly.html (1636 words)

	Madame Butterfly
		f you stripped "Madame Butterfly" of its ravishingly beautiful Puccini score, you would be left with the nasty late-19th-century story of a selfish American naval lieutenant who marries a Japanese child bride knowing full well he will never see her again once he leaves Japan.
		Frèderic Mitterrand's film version of "Madame Butterfly," which opens today at the Sony Theaters Lincoln Square, begins to get at the story's harsh realities, especially in the swaggering performance of Richard Troxell, whose Pinkerton is an arrogant, racist boor.
		"Madame Butterfly" is being officially "presented" by Martin Scorsese, a director whose films flaunt an "operatically" high-pitched emotional palette.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/madame_butterfly.html (647 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - In search of Madame Butterfly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The answer to the enigma of Madame Butterfly’s re-emergence lies essentially in the brilliance of the score and libretto and its timeless, universal observations on the nature of love.
		Madame Butterfly was a new departure for opera - it focused on domestic drama, rather than affairs of state; the entire story taking place within a house in Nagasaki.
		In fact, legend has it that so pleased was Puccini with Madame Butterfly, that for the first time ever he piled his family into his carriage and took them to the premiere of one of his works.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=188572004 (2165 words)

	'Madame Butterfly' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Fink, the director of "Madame Butterfly," said the larger venue of Shryock Auditorium makes the title role more difficult for the lead character, but several modifications have been made to aid in the performance.
		Based on David Belasco's one-act play, "Madame Butterfly" is the story of an American naval officer who arranges a marriage with a young Japanese woman, which he does not take seriously.
		Although the serviceman leaves for America, Madame Butterfly dutifully remains behind to care for the child with which he has left her behind.
	www.dailyegyptian.com /fall99/11-12-99/butterfly.html (475 words)

	Madame Butterfly - Portland, OR, 97204 - Citysearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Original Madame Butterfly is served in abundant portions and may require assistance, so be sure to bring a friend.
		The menu at Madame Butterfly is daring and unique, and the presentation is spectacular.
		Butterfly for her 21st and it wasn't at all what we expected.
	portland.citysearch.com /profile/11633555 (542 words)

	MADAME BUTTERFLY'S Las Vegas, Nevada - Bath & Massage
		In fact the word rub-down is a forbidden word in MADAME BUTTERFLY'S. On the other hand the word "joint" is perfectly acceptable.
		Madame Butterfly's is open 24 hours a day.
		Madame Butterfly's is listed as a Hot Spot of Nevada.
	www.madamebutterfly.com (273 words)

	- Review: NBT Madame Butterfly
		Madame Butterfly, as a full length ballet, was first seen there and has since entered the repertoire of a number of North American companies.
		Set in 19th century Japan, Butterfly gives her all for a US Navy Officer (Pinkerton) who is enchanted for all of a day/night and then goes home for years, marrying an American girl along the way.
		Keiko Amemori was my Butterfly in the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, this evening (she joined NBT in October 2001 via Japan and Hambourg), and I don't think there was a dry eye in the house when the lights went up.
	www.ballet.co.uk /dcforum/happening/2518.html (1132 words)

	Greg Kucera Gallery \| Seattle
		Frankenthaler's Madame Butterfly, a woodcut triptych printed in 2000, is a large work (41 3/4 x 79 1/2 inches) of remarkable complexity.
		That is, the techniques used in both the woodcut and opera singing are sophisticated and difficult to master, yet both the sound of the singing and the appearance of the print strike a listener or viewer as simply and effortlessly beautiful.
		Helen Frankenthaler's Madame Butterfly is impressive in its visual and conceptual depth.
	www.gregkucera.com /frankenthaler.htm (891 words)

	Madame Butterfly Tickets- Madame Butterfly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Madame Butterfly tickets are available in Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, New York, Boston, Chicago, Madame Butterfly Birmingham, Atlanta tickets, Los Angeles, San Fransico, Dixie Chicks Dallas, Austin.
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	www.southerntickets.net /Madame_Butterfly.html (273 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Archive Search
		Butterfly (Chiaki Nagao) and her geisha girlfriends dance on pointe in their kimonos but they don't tittup like little maids.
		The action is framed by a kabuki-style staging of two ritual suicides: Butterfly's disgraced father kills himself leaving his Samurai sword to his daughter, who disembowels herself at the end, dying with honour.
		Chiaki Nagao's Butterfly is most expressive when she is numb with grief.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Archive/Article/0,4273,4375636,00.html (730 words)

	RoyalOperaHouse - 2004/5 Synopses - Opera & Ballet Synopses
		Butterfly tells Pinkerton that for his sake she has become a Christian, but she has not told her family.
		Butterfly and the faithful Suzuki are still living in the house.
		Butterfly, maintaining her dignity, replies that if Pinkerton returns to the house in half an hour she will give him the boy.
	info.royaloperahouse.org /Synopses/index.cfm?ccs=467&cs=1012 (820 words)

	pucciniana! giacomo puccini and madama butterfly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Puccini worked on 'Butterfly' for two years, a short time considering that he had to stop composing for eight months out of these 24: on 25th February 1903, he was badly injured in a car accident, suffering a compound fracture of his right leg.
		He returned to writing 'Butterfly' as soon as he was able to and completed the score on 27th December 1903.
		Abroad 'Madama Butterfly' was first performed in Buenos Aires, with Toscanini in the pit and Rosina Storchio as Butterfly.
	www.r-ds.com /opera/pucciniana/butterfly.htm (644 words)

	Madame Butterfly - Giacomo Puccini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Madame Butterfly originated in a story by John Luther Long and was adapted for the stage by David Belasco.
		What makes the piece work are the characterizations of Butterfly and her Captain Pinkerton, both in the drama and in the rich and luscious Puccini score.
		There is one jarring, inexplicable note, when Mitterand has Cio-Cio San's uncle, a priest who comes to curse her for giving up her religion for the American, appear out of the sky, like a spirit, instead of the very real figure in the libretto.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/Butterfly.htm (429 words)

	madame butterfly
		I also love Butterfly's sweet innocence when she asks when the robin builds his nest in her husband's country, because in her country it has built a nest three times and she can't understand why her husband has not returned.
		Butterfly has many opportunities to escape her cage with a variety of suitors, yet stays completely faithful.
		"Madame Butterfly" is an exquisite and faithful cinematic adaptation of Giacomo Puccini's Opera "Madama Butterfly" set in Japan in 1904.
	www.seasonedwithlove.com /madame_butterfly_movie_review.htm (1438 words)

	The Menagerie - Madame Butterfly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Every time Madame Butterfly hit a high note, this woman had to make a sound of her own, to show her appreciation.
		It can't be for strong characters: Madame Butterfly is hopelessly naive and Pinkerton is a coward.
		I think the appeal of Madame Butterfly is that it appeals to some themes that just about everybody can relate to, in terms that they can relate to.
	menagerie.mactyre.net /article.php?story=2005020602181298 (762 words)

	Madame Butterfly
		On Feb. 17, 1904, Giacomo Puccini's opera, Madama Butterfly, debuted at Milan's Teatro alla Scala., Madama Butterfly was based on an 1898 short story by writer John Luther Long (born Hanover, PA in 1861).
		Long’s Madame Butterfly was first published in Century Magazine and then republished in book form.
		In Belasco’s Madame Butterfly, unlike Long's, Cho-Cho-San commits suicide when Pinkerton discards her.
	www.hpsd.k12.pa.us /archives/madam_butterfly/intro.htm (271 words)

	Madame Butterfly
		However, whereas in Long's story his destruction of Butterfly involves trying to make her think like an American (for example, that marriage is not a temporary affair), in the opera it is love more than modern ideas that convinces her that Pinkerton will return for her.
		Butterfly prende il bambino, lo posa su di una stuoia col viso voltato verso la parte di sinistra, gli dà nelle mani la banderuola americana ed una puppattola e lo invita a trastullarsene, mentre delicatamente gli benda gli occhi.
		Butterfly takes the baby, sits him on a stool with his face turned to the left, gives him the American flag to hold and a doll as distractions, while she gently blindfolds him.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/jshoaf/Jdolls/jdollwestern/photos/butterrfly.html (1508 words)

	Madame Butterfly Tickets - Tickets for Madame Butterfly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
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	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Madame Butterfly, Leeds
		During the opening scene, when Butterfly's father commits suicide, and during the staging of Butterfly's own terrible death, Nixon doesn't use Puccini at all.
		In Chiaki Nagao, as Butterfly, he may not have the strongest classical technician, but he has a dance actress capable of making us believe in Butterfly's utter vulnerability.
		During the final scenes, when Butterfly stands stricken at the loss of her child, then commits suicide on a blood-red stage, her grief is terrible in its austerity.
	www.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,3604,652465,00.html (442 words)

	Madama Butterfly
		Pinkerton, a U.S. Navy officer in Japan, contracts what he considers a temporary marriage to Cio-Cio-San, called Butterfly, who renounces religion and family in her adoration for him.
		When Pinkerton leaves for America, Butterfly blissfully ignores warnings of his unfaithfulness and awaits his return, even turning down a marriage proposal from Yamadori, a rich Japanese businessman.
		Butterfly ends her unbearable misery with her father's sword, thus preserving her honor.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0153806.html (270 words)

	Madame Butterfly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Madame Butterfly is the tale of a geisha who falls in love with an American Naval lieutenant, abandons her family and religion for his and is ultimately betrayed when he deserts her and marries an American woman.
		This production of Madame Butterfly, featuring internationally acclaimed soloists from Europe and the United States, will be sung in Italian with English supertitles.
		They made their European debut in 1998 on an extensive tour of France and Switzerland performing La Bohème and Madame Butterfly, and their American debut took place in the same season with Die Fledermaus.
	www.ri-philharmonic.org /newsreviews/PRop2.htm (449 words)

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