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Starcrossed: A Biography of Madame Butterfly
Starcrossed: A Biography of Madame Butterfly
Starcrossed: A Biography of Madame Butterfly
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Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly has enjoyed tremendous popularity in Europe and America since its debut in 1904. It has also inspired a global-level debate about whether the tragic heroine of the opera, Cho-Cho-san, was based on a real-life model. 

Starcrossed looks at this controversy a

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 1, 2004
ISBN9781788691154
Starcrossed: A Biography of Madame Butterfly
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Brian Burke-Gaffney

Brian Burke-Gaffney was born in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1950 and came to Japan in 1972, going on to train for nine years as an ordained monk of the Rinzai Zen Sect. He moved to Nagasaki in 1982. He is currently professor of cultural history at the Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science and honorary director of Glover Garden. He received the Nagasaki Prefecture Citizens Award in 1992 and the Nagasaki Shinbun Culture Award in 2016. He has published several books in Japanese and English, including Starcrossed: A Biography of Madame Butterfly (EastBridge, 2004) and Nagasaki: The British Experience 1854–1945 (Global Oriental UK, 2009).

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