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Essays & Further Reading

Take an in-depth look at Madama Butterfly with the following articles and essays.


About the Costumes

World-renowned costume and set designer Susan Benson created the designs for the COC production of Madama Butterfly in 1990, and her work has stood the test of time.


Orientalism in Art

By Linda Hutcheon & Misha Teramura

What we call the "Orient" has long fascinated Western culture—in large part, thanks to a history of conquest and colonization. What Edward Said famously dubbed "Orientalism" was the result of this history: the West's version of the Orient as its exotic, seductive, yet despotic, dangerous Other became dominant.


A scene from the COC's production of Madama Butterfly. Photo: Michael Cooper © 2009

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This production was originally made possible through a generous gift from
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Generously Underwritten in Part by The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation



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