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Parton had three number-one singles in 1974 (" Jolene ", " I Will Always Love You " and " Love is Like a Butterfly "), and a further chart-topper in 1975 with " The Bargain Store ".
* Butterfly koi ( 鰭長錦鯉 、 ひれながにしきごい ) is a hybrid of koi and Asian carp with long flowing fins.
* Solstice Butterfly by Jerald Beltran ( J. I. O, Culture Crash ) is set in 2131 & 2135.
Hidden Jungle is the setting of the annual Butterfly Jungle event.
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 ".
Butterfly says that, for a happy bride, the wait is even more difficult.
Butterfly tells Pinkerton and Sharpless that her family is from Nagasaki and was once very wealthy.
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 Bonze is shocked at the American, and he orders all the guests to leave with him, saying to Butterfly, " You have renounced us, and we renounce you.
Butterfly is weeping.
) 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.
Butterfly is renounced — renounced but happy ".
Suzuki tells Butterfly that foreign husbands never return to their Japanese wives, but Butterfly replies furiously that Pinkerton had assured her, on the very last morning they were together, " Oh, Butterfly, my little wife, I shall return with the roses, when the earth is full of joy, when the robin makes his nest.
" Without looking to see who is speaking, Butterfly corrects him, " Madam Pinkerton, please.
At this, Butterfly hears Goro laugh, and she whispers to Sharpless that Goro is a bad man.
Butterfly sees Yamadori and asks him if he is not going to give up pursuing her, because " You have already had many different wives.
Goro tells Sharpless that Butterfly thinks that she is still married.
" When Goro tries to tell her about the Japanese law of marriage, Butterfly interrupts and tells him that the Japanese law is not the law of her country, the United States.
Goro whispers that Pinkerton ’ s ship is expected to arrive soon, and Sharpless explains that Pinkerton is too embarrassed to meet Butterfly and has asked Sharpless to handle it.

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He sang in a duet of his 1972 song " Changes " with Butterfly Boucher for the 2004 animated film Shrek 2.
They remained with Puccini for his next three operas and probably his greatest successes: La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly.
The original version of Madama Butterfly, premiered at La Scala on February 17, 1904, was initially greeted with great hostility ( probably largely owing to inadequate rehearsals ).
After meeting Simon King in a Chelsea shopping centre in 1969, he joined the band Opal Butterfly, but the group soon folded, having previously failed to raise enough interest with their preceding CBS singles.
This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci that came virtually to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly uses the POV shot with a tilt shift focus to imitate the lead protagonist loss of sight in one eye.
Another strand of his 2000 AD work was Sláine, a barbarian fantasy based on Celtic mythology and neo-paganism, which he co-created with his then wife Angela Kincaid ( with whom he also created the children's series of books, The Butterfly Children ).
The album was a quick breakthrough and because of this Twain performed selected international venues and television shows including two CMA Fan Fair performances with Nashville guitarists Randy Thomas ( co-writer of the song " Butterfly Kisses "), Dan Schafer, Chris Rodriguez, Russ Taff, Hugh McDonald bass player of Bon Jovi, Dave Malachowski and Stanley T., formerly with The Beach Boys.
Pinkerton, Butterfly and their guests continue the celebration with many toasts.
) Butterfly pleads with Pinkerton to " Love me, please.
Butterfly assures Suzuki that Pinkerton will return, because he took care to arrange for the Consul to pay the rent and to fit the house with locks to keep out the mosquitoes, relatives and troubles.
Butterfly cries that, if Pinkerton never returned, she would go back to entertaining people with her songs, or, better, die.

Butterfly and Sharpless
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.
Sharpless greets her, " Excuse me, Madam Butterfly.
" The question confuses Sharpless, so Butterfly explains that Pinkerton promised to return to her " when the robin builds his nest again.
In the meantime, Sharpless gives up trying to read Pinkerton ’ s letter to Butterfly, and he puts the letter back in his pocket.
Yamadori, Sharpless and Goro quietly discuss Butterfly ’ s blindness.
Sharpless remains, sits next to Butterfly, and takes the letter out of his pocket once more.
Sharpless begins to read Pinkerton ’ s letter to Butterfly: " My friend, will you find that lovely flower of a girl …" Butterfly cannot control her happiness, as he continues, " since that happy times, three years have passed, and Butterfly perhaps does not remember me anymore.
" Sharpless continues, " If she still loves me, if she awaits me, I place myself in your hands so that you may carefully and considerately prepare her …" Butterfly exclaims, " He is coming!
" Sharpless asks her gently, " Butterfly, what would you do if he never returned?
Butterfly shows Sharpless her child, and Sharpless asks if Pinkerton knows.
Sharpless asks the child his name, and Butterfly answers for him, " Today my name is Sorrow.
Pinkerton and Sharpless have arrived, but Pinkerton tells Suzuki not to wake Butterfly and asks how Butterfly knew that Pinkerton had arrived.

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