madame butterfly

     

A Nagasaki geisha who had a child with a man named Glover was the model for this title character

Trivia about madame butterfly

  • This heroine's Japanese name is Cio-Cio-San
  • Her uncle The Bonze curses her for renouncing her religion to marry Lt. B.F. Pinkerton
  • This opera's best-known aria is Cio-Cio-San's "Un Bel Di Vedremo"
  • This opera ends with the title madam committing hara-kiri
  • Cio-Cio-San's better-known name
  • Puccini included a passage from "The Star-Spangled Banner" in one of Pinkerton's numbers in this opera
  • Cio Cio San, a young Japanese woman
  • In this Puccini work, Sharpless, the American consul in Nagasaki, is sung by a baritone
  • If this heroine had married Prince Yamadori, there might not be that nasty suicide in Act III
  • The title figure of this Puccini opera is Cio-Cio San
  • This 1904 Puccini opera partly inspired a 1980s play that just uses the letter M.
  • Cio-Cio-San, a Japanese woman;Lieutenant Pinkerton, USN;Suzuki, a servant
  • In 1932 Cary Grant played Lt. Pinkerton in a non-musical film based on this Puccini opera
  • Distraught that Lt. Pinkerton abandoned her, this Puccini heroine commits hara-kiri
  • A flop when it debuted in 1904, this Puccini opera set in Nagasaki later became one of the best-loved operas
  • Nagasaki is the scene of this tragic 1904 opera
  • Lt. Pinkerton's girlfriend Cio-Cio-San
  • "How You Might Address an Upper-Class Married Creature of the Order Lepidoptera"
  • 1904: Suzuki, a geisha's servant
  • Act I of this opera opens at Pinkerton's house in Nagasaki
  • (Placido Domingo presents the clue from the stage at the Met.) I've sung the role of Pinkerton many times & in 2011 at the Met I will conduct this opera in which Pinkerton sings the following:
  • Verona's Giovanni Zenatello was (you guessed it) an opera singer & was the first Lt. Pinkerton in this opera
  • Cio-Cio-San, the geisha in love with Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton, is better known by this nickname
  • Due to her specialty, Olympic swimming gold medalist Mary T. Meagher had this opera title as a nickname

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