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Madame Chrysanthème (Madam Chrysanthemum) is an opera, described as a comédie lyrique, with music by André Messager to a libretto by Georges Hartmann and Alexandre André, after the semi-autobiographical novel Madame Chrysanthème (1887) by Pierre Loti. It consists of four acts with a prologue and an epilogue and is set in Nagasaki, Japan. [1]
Pierre Le Cor, Pierre Loti and Okane-San, photographed in 1885. Madame Chrysanthème is a novel by Pierre Loti, presented as the autobiographical journal of a naval officer who was temporarily married to a Japanese woman while he was stationed in Nagasaki, Japan. [1]
Madame Chrysanthème may refer to: Madame Chrysanthème, 1887 story by Pierre Loti; Madame Chrysanthème, 1893 opera by André Messager, based on the novel This page ...
Messager in 1921. André Charles Prosper Messager (French:; 30 December 1853 – 24 February 1929) was a French composer, organist, pianist and conductor.His compositions include eight ballets and thirty opéras comiques, opérettes and other stage works, among which his ballet Les Deux Pigeons (1886) and opéra comique Véronique (1898) have had lasting success; Les p'tites Michu (1897) and ...
Fans is the second album by Malcolm McLaren, released in 1984.It was an attempt at fusing opera with 1980s R&B and contains adaptations of pieces from famous operas such as Madama Butterfly and Carmen.
Madame Chrysanthème, a novel of Japanese manners that is a precursor to Madama Butterfly and Miss Saigon, was published the same year. [5] Loti (right) with "Chrysanthème" and Pierre le Cor in Japan, 1885.
M. Butterfly is a play by David Henry Hwang.The story, while entwined with that of the opera Madama Butterfly, is based most directly on the relationship between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu, a Beijing opera singer.
In 1918 she returned to the United States where for two seasons she performed both Madama Butterfly and André Messager's Madame Chrysanthème. The latter was not well-received, being viewed as a warmed-over Butterfly. In 1920 she was a guest performer at opera houses in Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Florence and Rome.