Editing Madama Butterfly (section)

==Performance history==
Premieres of versions of ''Madama Butterfly'' in major opera houses throughout the world include the Teatro de la Opera de Buenos Aires on 7 July 1904, under [[Arturo Toscanini]], this being the first performance in the world outside Italy. As in the world premiere in Milan a few months earlier, the protagonist was [[Rosina Storchio]].<ref>Korn, Francis and Sigal, Silvia (2010), ''Buenos Aires antes del Centenario 1904-1909'', Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, ISBN 978-950-07-3218-5</ref> Its first performance in Britain was in London on 10 July 1905 at the [[Royal Opera House]], Covent Garden, while the first US performance was presented in English on 15 October 1906, in Washington, D.C., at the Columbia Theater. The first performance in New York took place on 12 November of the same year at the [[Garden Theatre]].<ref>"The Savage Innocents", Part 2, ''The Opera Quarterly'', Vol. 19, no. 1</ref> The [[Metropolitan Opera]] first performed the opera on 11 February 1907 under the supervision of the composer with [[Geraldine Farrar]] as Cio-Cio-San, [[Enrico Caruso]] as Pinkerton, [[Louise Homer]] as Suzuki, [[Antonio Scotti]] as Sharpless, with [[Arturo Vigna]] conducting;{{sfn|Carner|1979|pages=[https://archive.org/details/madambutterflygu0000carn/page/79 79–80]}}  ''Madama Butterfly'' has since been heard virtually every season at the Met except for a hiatus during [[World War II]] from 1942 through 1945 due to the hostilities between the United States and Japan. The first Australian performance was presented at the [[Theatre Royal, Sydney|Theatre Royal in Sydney]] on 26 March 1910, starring [[Amy Eliza Castles]].<ref>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|id2=castles-amy-eliza-5530|title=Castles, Amy Eliza (1880–1951)|first=Thérèse|last=Radic|year=1979|volume=7|access-date=2 January 2015|author-link=Thérèse Radic}}</ref>

Between 1915 and 1920, Japan's best-known opera singer [[Tamaki Miura]] won international fame for her performances as Cio-Cio-San. A memorial to this singer, along with one to Puccini, can be found in the [[Glover Garden]] in the port city of [[Nagasaki]], where the opera is set.{{sfn|Carner|1979|page=[https://archive.org/details/madambutterflygu0000carn/page/32 32]}}