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Vacations were spent by the sea or in the mountains; people listened to soothing operas like Puccini’s La Bohème and Madame Butterfly; the first silent-movies of The Last Days of Pompeii and Quo Vadis were made; one could partake in intellectual conversations in open air cafés at the hour of the passeggiata.
The show makes an interesting contrast with that other Puccini retread, Miss Saigon . The latter, a British musical, relocates Madame Butterfly to the most controversial conflict of our time, paints its story on a big, sweeping canvas and has gone on to play around the world; the other brings La Bohème home to Greenwich Village, and thus further reinforces the parochialism of the New York musical, as it shrivels away to its core audience.
Book -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly , by Jean-Dominique Bauby, translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt;
Jenny Thompson swam the world's fastest 100 - meter butterfly race.
The animal in hiding in pavilion is a butterfly, from Latin papilionem `butterfly.