First he has locks installed on doors, which is unusual in Japan. Pinkerton does not understand Japanese culture and, being of a whimsical nature, does not seriously think about the consequences of his actions. He does not bother to tell her that he has the option to cancel the lease at any time. He tells his young wife Cho-Cho-San that the house is leased for 999 years, giving her the impression that he means to stay with her forever. Pinkerton hires a marriage broker to find a wife and a house in Japan. His friend Sayre who had previously served in Japan comforts him and suggests he finds himself a Japanese wife as other sailors have done. He has just been reassigned from the Mediterranean to the Nagasaki station in Japanese. Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, a sailor in the United States Navy, is unhappy. The opera has itself inspired a number of other works. The famous Italian opera Madama Butterfly (1904) by Giacomo Puccini is based on the Belasco play and the original short story. Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan by David Belasco, a one-act play adapted from the story, premiered in New York in 1900.
Even after he sails away, she refuses to remarry, believing that he will return one day. Although Pinkerton's ignorance of Japanese culture causes her to become an outcast, Butterfly remains devoted to her husband. The title character is a young Japanese girl who is married off by her family to an American sailor named Pinkerton. The story was loosely based on a real-life story Long's sister Sara Jane Correll had heard while staying in Nagasaki, Japan with her missionary husband. It was first published in the Century Magazine in January 1898. "Madame Butterfly" is a short story by the American writer John Luther Long. wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Page_one_of_the_first.Madame_Butterfly_by_William_Furst.1904 poster for the Puccini opera Madama Butterfly by Leopoldo Metlicovitz.wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Valerie_Bergere_1.jpg.
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