Page one of the first violin part of incidental music for Madame Butterfly by William Furst
Madame Butterfly was first performed March 5, 1900, at the Herald Square Theatre in New York City, after the curtain raiserNaughty Anthony.[2] The play was written and produced by David Belasco, with scenic design by Ernest Gros; incidental music was composed by William Furst.[3]
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Girardi, Michele (2002). Puccini: His International Art. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-29758-6
Kerr, Douglas (1991). "David Henry Hwang and the Revenge of Madame Butterfly" in Asian Voices in English, Roy Harris (ed.). Hong Kong University Press, pp. 119–130. ISBN 962-209-282-9
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References
^Strang, Lewis Clifton (1902). Famous Actresses of the Day in America. Boston: L. C. Page and Company. pp. 176–180.
^ a b c d e f g h i"Dramatic and Musical". The New York Times. March 6, 1900. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
Full text of Madame Butterfly, A Tragedy of Japan (from "Six Plays" Little, Brown 1928)
The stories of Madame Butterfly, a comparison of Long's short story, Belasco's play, and Puccini's opera.
Madame Butterfly - catalog record for the incidental music used for the play (part of the Belasco Collection in the Music Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts).