Madame Butterfly
Subtitle: (d'après John L[uther] Long et David Belasco) : drame lyrique en trois actes de MM. L[uigi] Illica et G[iuseppe] Giacosa ; traduction française de Paul Ferrier ; musique de Giacomo Puccini
Contributors: Long, John Luther, 1861-1927; Belasco, David, 1853-1931; Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906, librettist; Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919, librettist; Schut, Ph. J., former owner; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Edition: Nouvelle edition.
Publisher: G. Ricordi & Cie
Published: 1906
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Madama Butterfly
Notes: Originally in 2 acts; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa after David Belasco's dramatization of a story by John Luther Long; first performed in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala, 17 February 1904; first performed with this translation in Paris at the Opéra-Comique, 28 December 1906. Cf. Loewenberg.

Includes cast list on t.p. verso.

Includes publisher's advertisements throughout.

Loewenberg, A.  Annals of opera, col. 1256

French words, after the original Italian.