The Victorian period was a time when gentlemen (and sometimes ladies) of leisure embarked on adventurous escapades around the world. Many of these travelers were avid communicators, writing letters, articles, and keeping journals of their travels. All these personal interpretations of what they witnessed combined to create exotic images of distant lands for those remaining at home. Novels, plays, ballets and operettas were set in foreign locations. One of the last countries to be opened …showed first 75 words of 526 total…

…showed last 75 words of 526 total…Puccini. Puccini's first version of the opera failed at La Scala in 1904, but a revised version was successful the same year, the version that we hear today, one of the most frequently produced operas in the entire repertory. Today’s version of Madame butterfly exsists in a british play called Miss Saigon. The differences in these dramas rests in the conflict of gender and race. Also the misinterpretation of the meaning from the original versions. .