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Madame Butterfly is an opera in two acts by Giacomo Puccini, set in Japan. It is based on the book by John Luther Long and the drama by David Belasco[?].

Text by Illica and Giacosa. First production, Milan, 1904.

Plot

Place, Nagasaki, Japan.

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Time, the present.

ACT I. Lieutenant Pinkerton, U.S.N., and Cho-Cho-San, or Madame Butterfly, a Japanese girl, are about to enter into a Japanese marriage. Goro, a marriage broker[?], has arranged the match, and has rented a little house on the hillside for them to live in.

The American consul, Sharpless, a kind-hearted man, begs Pinkerton to forego this plan, because the girl believes the marriage to be binding.

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The lieutenant laughs at him, and the bride appears with her friends, joyous and smiling. Sharpless finds that to show her trust in Pinkerton she has renounced the faith of her ancestors so that she can never return to her own people.

(Butterfly: "Hear what I would tell you.") The marriage contract[?] is