Opera poster - Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini Wood Print

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Opera poster for Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini - from the minimalist opera poster series by illustrator and writer Moira Risen - a perfect gift for opera fans.

'Madama Butterfly tells the story of a young, naive geisha named Cio-Cio San (butterfly in Japanese) who marries Pinkerton, a US Navy Lieutenant at the beginning of the 1900s in Nagasaki, Japan. Pinkerton considers their marriage a comfortable 'short term lease' and betrays her love and commitment by leaving her and marrying another woman.

The sheet music on the bottom of the poster is from Butterfly's beautiful soprano aria 'Un bel di vedremo'.

This poster is part of my continuously augmented opera-themed poster collection featuring the works of Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner, Rossini and other great composers. '

All pieces are available as high quality framed, acrylic, metal or canvas print in different sizes.

Collections featuring original artwork of illustrator and writer Moira Risen and carefully curated collections of digitally restored and cleaned illustrations from artists of the Golden Age, vintage botanical drawings, advertising posters from the early 1900's, vintage pictorial maps, traditional Chinese flower and bird paintings and some selected, licensed works of modernist painters. With licensing inquiries or any other questions please contact Moira personally via this email. You find more information about her and her creative projects on her personal website and on her blog. About Moira's artwork: 'I rather label my creations illustrations than classic fine art pieces because almost always there's a story (or at least a fragment...