![]() ![]() The opera has itself inspired a number of other works. The famous Italian opera Madama Butterfly (1904) by Giacomo Puccini is based on the Belasco play and the original short story. Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan by David Belasco, a one-act play adapted from the story, premiered in New York in 1900. Even after he sails away, she refuses to remarry, believing that he will return one day. Although Pinkerton's ignorance of Japanese culture causes her to become an outcast, Butterfly remains devoted to her husband. The title character is a young Japanese girl who is married off by her family to an American sailor named Pinkerton. ![]() The story was loosely based on a real-life story Long's sister Sara Jane Correll had heard while staying in Nagasaki, Japan with her missionary husband. It was first published in the Century Magazine in January 1898. "Madame Butterfly" is a short story by the American writer John Luther Long. 1904 poster for the Puccini opera Madama Butterfly by Leopoldo Metlicovitz. ![]()
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