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unusual facts about Madame Butterfly



Celestino

While building Celestino, Sergio received his technical training at the Metropolitan Opera and worked on productions such as Lucia, The Magic Flute and Madame Butterfly.

Charles MacKay

While he had some involvement in the planning of the 2009 festival season, the 2010 season is based on MacKay's programming and contains nods of appreciation and dedication to John Crosby, SFO's founding director (by opening his season with Madame Butterfly, Crosby's 1957 opening night and the opening night of new 1968 theatre after the 1967 fire) and to Richard Gaddes (by including a Benjamin Britten opera, Albert Herring in the line-up).

David Habbin

Habbin then went on to consolidate his operatic training for two years at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and has since performed with various UK opera companies in several roles, including Alfredo in La Traviata, Lt. Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, Alfred in Die Fledermaus and Fenton in Falstaff.

Ein schöner Tag

The vocals by Isgaard are a sample of the theme "Un bel di vedremo" from the opera "Madame Butterfly" by Giacomo Puccini.

Fely Constantino

His screenplay Sa Tokyo Ikinasal was the Filipino adaptation of Madame Butterfly, the opera by Giacomo Puccini.

James Barkley

Among other commissions, he has created artwork for productions of operas The Merry Widow, Madame Butterfly, and La bohème.

Lee Langley

Her next novel, “Butterfly’s Shadow” set in mid-twentieth century America and Japan, takes Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly as a springboard to send the characters into an imagined future.

Maria Bieşu

In a short period she prepared the roles of Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Liza in Queen of Spades, and Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly.

Nat Sakdatorn

In August 2008, Sakdatorn acted in a musical play adapted from Madame Butterfly as Prince Yamadori.

Opera Krakowska

Groundbreaking productions in natural settings included the Straszny Dwór opera performance at the Renaissance Courtyard of the Niepołomice Castle in 2002 and 2003; Madame Butterfly was staged in the depths of the centuries-old Wieliczka Salt Mine in 2003, while Tosca by Puccini and Straszny Dwór (The Haunted Manor) by Stanisław Moniuszko were performed against the arresting background of the Wawel Royal Castle in 2005.

Ramón Iriarte

As Claudio in Montero's Virginia, and roles in L'amico Fritz, Carmen, Aida, Pagliacci, Madame Butterfly, and Bastien und Bastienne had become part of Iriarte’s wide music repertoire full of success.

Summer/Fever

The recording of the album took place in London, England, at Strongroom Recording Studio, and the songs, mostly written by Sodagreen's lead singer Wu Tsing-Fong, contain Britpop elements and lyrical references to the supernatural, Faust, Madame Butterfly, Don Quixote and the Greek god Dionysus, the subject of three brief prose passages between tracks, written in English by band manager Will Lin and recited by studio engineer Dan McKinna.

Valerie Bergere

At New York’s Grand Opera House on November 26, 1900, Bergere played Cora, the hosiery model, in David Belasco’s comedy, Naughty Anthony, and the tragic Cho Cho San in the show’s curtain raiser, Madame Butterfly; roles originally played earlier in the year in New York and London by Blanche Bates.


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Susie O'Neill

At the 2000 Australia Trials before the Sydney Olympics, she broke the 19-year old world record of another "Madame Butterfly", Mary T. Meagher, in the 200m butterfly, but was beaten at the Sydney Games by American Misty Hyman, in an upset.

Teatro Caupolicán

In 1939 there was an opera program which included The Barber of Seville, Madame Butterfly, and Rigoletto.