“That may be Japanese law … but not in my country!” : marriage, divorce, and private international law in Giacomo Puccini’s "Madama Butterfly"

Madama Butterfly is one of the most famous operas by Giacomo Puccini. Set in Japan in 1904, it depicts the tragic love story between B.F. Pinkerton, an officer in the US Navy, and Cio-cio-san (also called Madama Butterfly), a young Japanese girl from Nagasaki.