Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly comes alive on Israeli stage

Performers from the Israeli Opera perform Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly in a free and open-air performance at Park HaYarkon in Tel Aviv, Israel, September 15, 2016. (REUTERS)

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Performers from the Israeli Opera perform Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly in a free and open-air performance at Park HaYarkon in Tel Aviv, Israel, September 15, 2016. (REUTERS)

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Italian conductor Francesco Cilluffo directs the orchestra during Madame Butterfly opera. (REUTERS)

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Madame Butterfly is a three-act opera written by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. (REUTERS)

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The opera, in parts, is based on short story of the same name by John Luther Long, an American lawyer and writer. (REUTERS)

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He, in turn, heard the story from his sister Jennie Correll who lived in Japan for a while with her husband—a Methodist missionary. (REUTERS)

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Performers from the Israeli Opera prepare backstage before performing the opera. (REUTERS)

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Madame Butterfly is a tragic story of an American naval officer Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton and his Japanese wife, Cho-Cho-San, who is a geisha. (REUTERS)

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Puccini’s original opera was first performed in Milan in 1904. (REUTERS)