Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini) 'I couldn't turn the pages

'I couldn't turn the pages quick enough

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Madame Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini) 'I couldn't turn the pagesPuccini had hardly finished his work on 'Tosca' in 1900 and seen its first performances when a new potential opera subject attracted his attention during a theatre visit in London: the play staged was 'Madame Butterfly. Tragedy of a Japanese Woman'. At the beginning of 1904, the musical setting of this subject matter was completed the work was a failure at the world premiere. Thereupon, Puccini revised it into a three act version, and it was in this