Butterfly greets her relatives, who have arrived for the wedding.

Sharpless greets her, " Excuse me, Madam Butterfly.

Pinkerton tells Goro to bring Butterfly to him.

Pinkerton admits to Sharpless that he does not know whether he is really in love or just infatuated, but he is bewitched with Butterfly ’ s innocence, charm and beauty, like a butterfly fluttering around and then landing with silent grace, so beautiful " that I must have her, even though I injure her butterfly wings ".

Sharpless tells Pinkerton that he heard Butterfly speak, when she visited the Consulate, and he asks Pinkerton not to pluck off her delicate wings.

However, Pinkerton tells Sharpless that he will do " no great harm, even if Butterfly falls in love.

" Goro re-enters to tell Pinkerton and Sharpless that Butterfly ’ s friends are coming.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton and Sharpless that her family is from Nagasaki and was once very wealthy.

Meanwhile, Butterfly tells her relatives how much she loves Pinkerton.

Butterfly ’ s relatives say that he ’ s like a king, so rich and so handsome, and then, at a sign from Butterfly, all her friends and relatives bow to Pinkerton and walk out to the garden.

Pinkerton takes Butterfly ’ s hand and leads her into the house.

From her sleeve, Butterfly brings out to show Pinkerton all of her treasures, which include only a few handkerchiefs, a mirror, a sash, and other trinkets.

Goro whispers to Pinkerton that the case contains a " gift " from the Mikado to Butterfly ’ s father, inviting him to commit seppuku.

Butterfly continues to show Pinkerton her other little treasures, including several little statues: " They are the spirits of my ancestors.

Butterfly tells Pinkerton that yesterday, in secret and without telling her uncle, who is a Buddhist priest, the Bonze, she went to the Consulate, where she abandoned her ancestral religion and converted to Pinkerton ’ s religion.

The Commissioner conducts the brief ceremony and witnesses Pinkerton and Butterfly sign the official papers.

Pinkerton, Butterfly and their guests continue the celebration with many toasts.

He stands over Butterfly, shouting his curses at her, when Pinkerton intervenes to stop him.

) Pinkerton tells Butterfly that " All your relatives and all the priests in Japan are not worth the tears from your loving, beautiful eyes.

) Pinkerton tells Butterfly that the " Night is falling ", and Butterfly answers that " with it comes darkness and peace.

Pinkerton watches Butterfly, as she watches him, but her happiness is tempered, as " still the angry voice curses me.

) Pinkerton admires the beautiful Butterfly and tells her, " you have not yet told me that you love me.

" Without looking to see who is speaking, Butterfly corrects him, " Madam Pinkerton, please.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

Returning to England in 1779 he found that the taste for classic poetry, ever the source of his inspiration, no longer existed, and he spent two years in Saint Petersburg, being employed by the empress Catherine the Great, who purchased his " Cupid tormenting a Butterfly ".

This entertainment fiction would later be labeled " Mandarin Ducks and Butterfly " fiction by New Culturalists, who despised its lack of social engagement.

In Aztec mythology, Ītzpāpālōtl (" Obsidian Butterfly ") was a fearsome skeletal warrior goddess who ruled over the paradise world of Tamoanchan, the paradise of victims of infant mortality and place identified where humans were created .< ref >

* The song " The Butterfly Collector " by The Jam ( the B-Side of the 1979 single " Strange Town ") was inspired by the book, but the song was in fact about Soo Catwoman, who upon the implosion of the Sex Pistols, attempted to become part of The Jam's entourage.

* Daryll Butterfly — A marionette puppet butterfly who visited the Neighborhood along with his friend Nancy.

His 2004 film The Butterfly Effect was a dramatic role for Kutcher, playing a conflicted young man who time travels ; the film received mixed to negative reviews, but was a box office success.

Gheorghiu said in a statement that she had missed some rehearsals to spend time with her husband, who was singing at the Met in Roméo et Juliette and rehearsing for Puccini's Madama Butterfly and added " I have sung ' Boheme ' hundreds of times, and thought missing a few rehearsals wouldn't be a tragedy.

The story interested American playwright David Belasco who, collaborating with Long, adapted it to a one-act play, Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan.

The production of the play caught the attention of Giacomo Puccini, who would compose the immortal opera Madama Butterfly to a libretto based on Belasco's play and Long's short story.

She has completed roles in Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story ( titled Rohtenburg for its German release ), in which she plays Katie Armstrong, a graduate student who writes a thesis paper on an infamous cannibal murder case, and the thriller The Girl in the Park, opposite Sigourney Weaver, Kate Bosworth and Alessandro Nivola.

" There was a really important customer there, a big Italian man, who shouted out to me, ' Sing Madame Butterfly ,' and of course he didn't mean the whole opera.

There is an old site of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai who are the characters in the Butterfly Lovers, a famous Chinese story.

After leaving Deep Purple, Rod recorded a solo single for Capitol, titled Hard To Be Without You / You Can ´ t Love A Child Like A Woman, then went on to form Captain Beyond, along with former Johnny Winter drummer Bobby Caldwell, former Iron Butterfly bassist Lee Dorman and guitarist Larry " Rhino " Reinhardt, who also was part of the last incarnation of Iron Butterfly.

In 1900, Jerome K. Jerome's Miss Hobbs was staged as well as David Belasco's Madame Butterfly, which was seen by Puccini, who later turned it into the famous opera.

Julia Butterfly Hill is a particularly well known tree sitter who occupied a Californian Redwood for 738 days, saving the tree and others in the immediate area.

It has also proved to be an effective springboard for the singing careers of some of its past participants, like 2003 finalists Wilfred Le Bouthillier, who recorded with the help of renowned Cajun singer Zachary Richard, and Marie-Élaine Thibert, who also released an album and sung for the soundtrack of Léa Pool's movie The Blue Butterfly.

Like the previous opening nights of 1957 and 1968, it featured a performance of Madama Butterfly this time sung by Miriam Gauci, the Maltese soprano who had her debut in the same role at the SFO in 1987.