caa a22 4500 386327564 CHVBK 20180307111659.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954586700002950 doi S0954586700002950 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954586700002950 Groos Arthur Return of the native: Japan in Madama Butterfly/Madama Butterfly in Japan [Elektronische Daten] [Arthur Groos] By all accounts the premiere of Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera on 11 February 1907 was a triumphant success, with the presence of the composer adding special lustre to the brilliant performance of a distinguished cast. Amidst the general acclamation, however, a foreign visitor named Jihei Hashiguchi raised a dissenting voice in a letter to a local newspaper: I can say nothing for the music of Madama butterfly. Western music is too complicated for a Japanese. Even Caruso' celebrated singing does not appeal very much more than the barking of a dog in faraway woods. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Cambridge Opera Journal Cambridge University Press 1/2(1989-07), 167-194 0954-5867 1:2<167 1989 1 OPR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586700002950 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954586700002950 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Groos Arthur NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cambridge Opera Journal Cambridge University Press 1/2(1989-07), 167-194 0954-5867 1:2<167 1989 1 OPR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge