“Viva Butterfly, for ever!”Luigi Illica.

This volume celebrates the centennial of the first performance of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly which took place on the 17th of February, 1904, at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. The essays by Julian Budden (“Forte e nuova, ma non facile”), VittoriaCrespi Morbio (“Madama Pinkerton’s Rouge: Puccini and the Aesthetics of Artifice”) and Maria Pia Ferraris (“A Snapshot View: Giacomo and Cio-Cio-San – An Illustrated Biography of Giacomo Puccini in the Yeard of M...