Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini, and the Search for the Real Cho-Cho-San by Jan van Rij

Madame Butterfly: Japonisme, Puccini, and the Search for the Real Cho-Cho-San

Jan van Rij

192 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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Long before Puccini wrote his masterpiece, the tale of the poor Japanese girl abandoned by her foreign lover had been taken up by numerous Western writers as part of the wave of Japonisme in late-19th-century Europe. But was there a "real" Madame ...

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