Giacomo Puccini

Standard Name: Puccini, Giacomo

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Textual Features Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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 opera Madame 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.
Weinstock, Herbert, and Wallace Brockway. The World of Opera: The Story of its Origins and the Lore of its Performance. Pantheon Books, 1962.
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