RPJ
made a major contribution to this film even apart from her script, in suggesting after the first screening of rushes that its music (by Richard Robbins
, as usual in Merchant-Ivory productions) should include...
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17 February 1904: The opera Madame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini...
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17 February 1904
The operaMadame Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
had its opening at the Scala
, Milan; the Japanese heroine is ruined and betrayed by her love for the American Lieutenant Pinkerton.
