* 1904 – Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.

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 ).

* Madama Butterfly, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa ( in two acts – premiered at La Scala, 17 February 1904 )

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 Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini used an extract of melody to write the aria " Ovunque al mondo ... ", in 1904 for his work Madama Butterfly.

In 2007, he designed stage and costumes for Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Festival Puccini 2007 in Torre del Lago.

Madama Butterfly (" Madam Butterfly ").

See Madama Butterfly discography.

* 1974: Madama Butterfly, a German television adaptation of the opera starring Mirella Freni and Plácido Domingo, directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.

* 1989: The Broadway and West End musical Miss Saigon was, in part, based on Madama Butterfly.

* 2004: On the 100th anniversary of Madama Butterfly, Shigeaki Saegusa composed Jr. Butterfly to a libretto by Masahiko Shimada.

* 2008: New York City Opera's Live from Lincoln Center telecast of its production of Madama Butterfly, directed by Mark Lamos, wins a Primetime Emmy Award.

* OPERA America's Online Learning Course on Puccini's Madama Butterfly

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In 1952 she became an instant favourite in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Colón as Madama Butterfly.

In front of you is the Palazzo Madama, once belonging to the Medici and now the Italian Senate.

Parthian horseman, now on display at the Palazzo Madama, Turin.

Columbus named this island as Madama Beata.

The Mantua court of the Gonzagas, employers of Monteverdi, played a significant role in the origin of opera employing not only court singers of the concerto delle donne ( till 1598 ), but also one of the first actual " opera singers "; Madama Europa.

* R 1. 03 Madama l ' umorista, o Gli stravaganti ( 26. 1. 1765, Modena ) — lost

As with Madama Butterfly, Puccini strove for a semblance of Asian authenticity ( at least to Western ears ) by using music from the region in question.

He also designed some of the decoration for the Villa Madama, the work in both villas being executed by his workshop.

The Villa Madama, a lavish hillside retreat for Cardinal Giulio de ' Medici, later Pope Clement VII, was never finished, and his full plans have to be reconstructed speculatively.

Lucca is the birthplace of composers Giacomo Puccini ( La Bohème and Madama Butterfly ), Nicalao Dorati, Francesco Geminiani, Gioseffo Guami, Luigi Boccherini, and Alfredo Catalani.

Lastly, " OperaAction ", the " Youth Education Program " established a program of events, including three Youth performances of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and, in 1986, Winds of the Solstice, an original youth opera created by 70 students working on libretto, music, choreography and orchestration and presented at the Sydney Opera House.

Victor Amadeus ' other also used Juvarra for the famous staircase within the Palazzo Madama where she lived after being banished.

According to Norman, the record company dropped several Christian songs, including " Butterfly ," " If God Is My Father ," " Kulderachna ", and " I Hope I'll See You In Heaven ", in favor of more lightweight love songs like " Fly, Fly, Fly ," the album's opening track ", and " Christmastime ', both previously released as singles.

Shortly after the release of Darkhorse the band broke up in 2003, citing amongst other things, pressure from their record company for a " Butterfly " follow-up.

* March 28 – Japan's Ayari Aoyama breaks Misty Hyman's world record in the Women's 100m Butterfly ( short course ): 58: 24

** April 19 – U. S .– swimmer Jenny Thompson breaks Ayari Aoyama's world record in the Women's 100m Butterfly ( short course ): 57: 79

* February 11 – Danyon Loader swims world record in the Men's 400m Freestyle, while Mark Foster betters the world record in the Men's 50m Butterfly and Sandra Völker swims a European record in the Women's 50m Backstroke.

* February 18 – Australia's Angela Kennedy breaks the world record in the Women's 100m Butterfly ( short course ): 58: 77

** December 2 – PR China's Limin Liu breaks the world record in the Women's 100m Butterfly ( short course ): 58: 68

Following the release of Imago, The Butterfly Effect spent the remainder of the year touring the record including an appearance on the 2007 Big Day Out festival tour.

The first astronomer to record the Butterfly Cluster's existence was Giovanni Battista Hodierna in 1654.

* Casey Desmond wrote a song called " Julia Butterfly Hill " which appeared on her 2006 record " No Disguise ".

Carey had originally conceived it as a house record with David Morales titled " Fly Away ( Butterfly Reprise )".

While writing the material for the album, she wrote a house music record titled " Fly Away ( Butterfly Reprise )" with David Morales.

Legends from photography and video / film who have also produced record cover images include Drew Struzan ( Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Iron Butterfly, The Beach Boys and others ), Annie Leibovitz ( John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith ), Richard Avedon ( Whitney Houston, Teddy Pendergrass ), Norman Seeff ( The Band, The Rolling Stones, Kiss, Aerosmith ), David LaChappelle ( No Doubt, Elton John ), Anton Corbijn ( U2, The Killers, Depeche Mode ), Karl Ferris ( Jimi Hendrix, Donovan, The Hollies ), Robert Mapplethorpe ( Patti Smith, Peter Gabriel ) and Francesco Scavullo ( Diana Ross, Edgar Winter ), David Michael Kennedy others.

With a $ 600 budget, this new union went into the recording studio to record " Butterfly " backed with " Ninety Nine Ways ".

Per the film, Bandstand host Dick Clark had a relationship with the record company and was paid $ 14, 000 for services related to Gracie's song " Butterfly ".

In the fourth race at Bay Meadows on December 1, 2006, Baze gained a lot more fame by setting the world's all-time record for most career victories, passing jockey Laffit Pincay Jr., by winning race 9, 531 aboard Butterfly Belle, owned by Jim Pitzer Sr. of Washington.

He then produced Streisand's 1974 Butterfly album, from which two songs, " There Won't Be Trumpets / A Quiet Thing " and " God Bless the Child ", were later released on her Just For the Record box set-on the liner notes she stated that ' no one at the record company shared my enthusiasm.

Tong also set up a record label with the uber-producer Youth ( of Killing Joke ) called Butterfly Recordings.