Madame Butterfly (play)

Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan is a play in one act by David Belasco adapted from John Luther Long's 1898 short story "Madame Butterfly". It premiered on March 20, 1900 at the at the Herald Square Theatre in New York City as an "after piece" to Belasco's Naughty Anthony and became one of Belasco's most famous works. The play and Long's short story served as the basis for the libretto of Puccini's 1904 opera, Madama Butterfly.

Sources

• Clapp, John Bouvé and Edgett, Edwin Francis (1902). Plays of the Present. Dunlap Society, pp. 165-167
• Girardi, Michele (2002). Puccini: His International Art. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0226297586
• Kerr, Douglas (1991). "David Henry Wang and the Revenge of Madame Butterfly" in Asian Voices in English, Roy Harris (ed.). Hong Kong University Press, pp. 119-130. ISBN 9622092829
• van Rij, Jan (2001). Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini, & the Search for the Real Cho-Cho-San. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 1880656523

External links

• Madame Butterfly at the Internet Broadway Database
• Full text of Madame Butterfly, A Tragedy of Japan (from "Six Plays" Little, Brown 1928)
• The stories of Madame Butterfly, a comparison of Long's short story, Belasco's play, and Puccini's opera.