🎨 Madama Butterfly premieres (1904)
Where: La Scala, Milan, Italy
📅 On This Day: February 17
February 17, 1904: Madama Butterfly premieres. On 17 February 1904, Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly premiered at La Scala in Milan, Italy. The story is set in Nagasaki, Japan. The first night went badly, but after Puccini revised it, it became one of the most loved operas in the world.
✨ More events on this day
- 1740 🔬 Swiss scientist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure was born; he offered a prize to the first climbers of Mont Blanc and later climbed it himself to study the air.
- 1781 💡 French doctor René Laennec was born; he invented the stethoscope, first just a rolled-up tube of paper, to listen to patients' hearts.
- 1959 🚀 Vanguard 2, the first weather satellite, was launched to measure how much cloud covered the Earth from space.
🧠 Question of the day
Where is Madama Butterfly set?
- Nagasaki, Japan
- New York, USA
- Paris, France
Show the answer
Answer: Nagasaki, Japan
🎂 Landmarks that opened on February 17
Questions
What happened on February 17?
February 17, 1904: Madama Butterfly premieres. It happened in La Scala, Milan, Italy.
Which landmarks opened on February 17?
King Sejong Station (established 1988), Newborn monument (unveiled 2008).
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