Some operas are so well loved and so widely performed that our perception of their origins and influences can become somewhat blurred. We may think of Madama Butterfly, for example, as being firmly in the Italian tradition, overlooking the great lengths to which Puccini went to incorporate the true sound of the Orient into his score.
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