Premiere: 30.09.2018 A Fondazione ,,Pergolesi Spontini” co-production, presented under the high patronage of Italian Embassy Opera in three acts (libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after David Belasco, John Luther Long and Pierre Loti) It was London in 1900 where Giacomo Puccini – who was supervising the Covent Garden production of his recent opera Tosca – was profoundly marked after seing David Belasco’s play Madama Butterfly. The theme ...