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By Beau on Sunday,  26 OCTOBER 2003  /  Posted in , ,

Went to a performance of the famous Opera Madama Butterfly this weekend. It was interesting and different from what I expected. Luckily, they displayed subtitles above the stage so you know what they are saying. The story takes place in Imperial Japan, with an American military soldier, all singing in Italian.

Which brings a question; why are modern Operas written and performed in Italian? It's a beautiful language and it probably is just about tradition but I was always under the assumption that only the old Operas were in Italian.

I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that it was written by a man named "Puccini".



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