Puccini’s Madama Butterfly will be presented by New Jersey Festival Orchestra March 4 @ 3:00 pm in the Concert Hall of the Dorothy Young Center.

Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Opera Classics Library Series

A comprehensive guide to Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY.
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Guide to Operatic Roles & Arias

Want to know the difference between Cio-Cio-san and Ciao Bella?
Level C: Ref ML102 .O6 B650 1994

William Weaver and Simonetta Puccini, eds. The Puccini Companion. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.

A fine vade mecum to the composer and his work.
Level B: 780.92 P977 P9772p.

The Puccini Companion: The Glorious Dozen. Edited by Burton D. Fisher. Coral Gables, Fla.: Opera Journeys Pub., 2004.

For more on the killer instinct of this Italian. On Madama Butterfly, see pp. 311-80.
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“Dovunque al mondo lo yankee vagabond:” Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (1794-1858) & Japan.

The Japan Expedition, 1852-1854: The Personal Journal of Commodore Matthew C. Perry. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1968.
Level D: DS881.8 .P4

Lepidoptery: A Different Kind of Butterfly

M. J. Scoble, The Lepidoptera: Form, Function, and Diversity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Level B: 595.78 S421

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