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Madama Butterfly was composed by Giacomo Puccini.
The first Cio-Cio San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, in the 1904 premiere, was soprano Rosina Storchio.
Puccini's opera has a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based the opera on the short story 'Madame Butterfly' by John Luther Long - 1898 and also on the novel 'Madame Chrysanthème' by Pierre Loti - 1887. However, the American scholar Arthur Groos claims that the opera was based on events that actually occurred in Nagasaki in the early 1890s.
2008/2009. Before that, 1982 I believe.
Madama Butterfly or Madame Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini wrote five versions of the opera. Madama Butterfly is actually Cio-Cio San the main character in the opera.