Unnamed Japanese spectator in Covent Garden - July, 1905

from Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life, pages 322-3:

Apropos of her (Luisa Tetrazzini's) assumption of the part of Madama Butterfly, when it was first performed at Covent Garden, I heard a Japanese gentleman remark that it was the only truthful presentment of Japanese life on the stage that he had seen since he came to Europe.
cite as

Wilhelm Ganz, Memories of a Musician: Reminiscences of Seventy years of Musical Life. In Internet Archive (London, 1913), p. 322-3. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1436518784793 accessed: 28 March, 2024

location of experience: Covent Garden

Listeners

Listening to

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Madame Butterfly
written by Giacomo Puccini
performed by Luisa Tetrazzini

Experience Information

Date/Time July, 1905
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by sp327 on Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:59:44 +0100
Approved on Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:11:00 +0000