Abstract
Madame Butterfly, which Puccini composed at the age of 45, represents “the most sincere and the most evocative opera he had ever imagined”. It corresponds probably to an inner work inspired by living through archaic representations again, strongly invested in by his deeply melancholic personality and by the relations he drew up between love and death. The opera allows the audience to share all the emotions that the composer expresses though his personae, called “figures of fiction” by André Green. The study of the sources and origin of the opera Madame Butterfly, at the beginning of the XXth century marked by “Japanism”, shows that Puccini succeeded in expressing musically the conflict between the Japanese world settled in its traditions and the American world, thoughtless, conquering and occasionally cruel. Puccini, in 1904, was a forerunner of our musical relations with Japan.
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