Four are set in Paris, one in ancient China, Butterfly in Japan, and one, La Fanciulla del West, or The Girl of the Golden West, in Gold Rush California. Of Puccini’s mature operas, only three ( Tosca and the two one-acts Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi) take place in Italy. Artists everywhere are free to choose any subject they wish and to use their own language as their means of expression. The 1904 opera was written to an Italian-language libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, premiered at Milan’s La Scala opera house in 1904, and soon became one of the world’s most beloved operas of all time. LOS ANGELES-In its most ambitious production to date, the daring and cheeky Pacific Opera Project (POP) offered the first-ever true-to-story bilingual Madama Butterfly to three audiences here (April 6, 13, 14-seen April 13), with four more performances set for Houston later this month and in early May. With a new libretto written by POP Artistic Director Josh Shaw and Houston’s Opera in the Heights Artistic Director Eiki Isomura, the production presents the Madame Butterfly story as if it actually occurred in Nagasaki sometime around the turn of the 20th century, when Japan was first opening up to Western influence. "Madama Butterfly" ensemble / Mike Tomasulo
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