Butterfly on Broadway and then travel just a few blocks to the Metropolitan Opera to see Puccini’s masterpiece that started it all 113 years earlier. In fact, in the fall of 2017, one could see both Miss Saigon and M. Both shows opened, and also had revivals, around the same time. Butterfly (1988) and Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Miss Saigon (1989), are of particular interest for retelling the story of Puccini’s opera in unique ways through different theatrical mediums. Two of these works, David Henry Hwang’s M. As one of the most frequently performed operas, Madama Butterfly has interested a variety of artists, spawning a long list of adaptations from an assortment of mediums including plays, musicals, movies, comic books, and even rock band albums. This opera, based on the 1898 short story by John Luther Long, tells the tragic story of a young Japanese geisha and her American naval officer lover, who fathers her child before returning home.
These three seemingly unrelated phenomena all collide when reviewing the multiple artistic endeavors that sprouted out of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly (1904). The Vietnam War, homosexual extramarital affairs, and the Japanese geisha.
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