Excerpt from A Second Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
The opera’s ancestry, 169 Loti’s Madame Chrysantheme, 169 - John Luther Long’s story, 169 - David Belasco’s play, 169 - How the failure of Naughty Anthony suggested Madame Butterfly, 169 - William Furst and his music, 171, 189 Success of Mr. Belasco’s play in New York, 171 - The success repeated in London, 172 Brought to the attention of Signor Puccini, 172 Ricordi and Co. And their librettists, 172 - Madama Butterfly fails in Milan, 173 The first casts in Milan, Brescia, and New York, 173 (footnote) -incidents of the fiasco, 174 Rossini and Puccini, 174 The opera revised, 175 Interruption of the vigil, 175 - Story of the opera, 176 et seq. - The hiring of wives in Japan, 176 Experiences of Pierre Loti, 176 Geishas and mous mes, 178 - A changed d nouement, 183 -messager’s opera, Ma dame Chrysantheme, 183 - The end of Loti’s romance, 184 Japanese melodies in the score, 186 - Puccini’s method and Wag ner’s, 187 The star-spangled Banner, 187 A tune from The Mikado, 187 Some of the themes of Puccini and William Furst, 188, 189.
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