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Madama Butterfly
Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, 1908.
The final version of Madama Butterfly, the renowned opera by Giacomo Puccini, consists of three acts.1
Although the work was originally composed in two acts, it underwent extensive revisions following a difficult premiere in 1904. Most notably, Puccini and his librettists divided the original, overly long second act into two separate parts to improve the structure of the piece. Following further refinements in 1905 and 1906, the opera reached its definitive three-act form.2