This image features an attractive actress playing Madame Butterfly in a 1909 production. The preceding information comes from an inscription on the reverse of the photograph. The photographer is Hans Wanderer and his studio was located in Klagenfurt, Austria. Madam Butterfly is an opera by Giacomo Puccini. The story was originally written by James Long (1898). David Belasco dramatized the story for theater. The operatic version of Madame Butterfly premiered in Milan, Italy in 1904.
MADAME BUTTERFLY IN KLAGENFURT, AUSTRIA
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LOL I am reading backwards in time and just commented on an earlier photograph that the subject might be dressed for Madame Butterfly. 🙂