Picturing Cio-Cio-San: House, screen, and ceremony in Puccini's Madama Butterfly

I propose that certain ‘Japanese’ elements of Puccini's Madama Butterfly have cultural analogues that support a reading of the opera as more profoundly authentic than has usually been argued. My discussion begins with the house, the most basic scenic component of the opera, and develops via a n...

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