Timeline Wednesday 17 February 1904

Events on Wednesday 17 February 1904 1

• 1904 Madama Butterfly Premieres Puccini's opera debuts at La Scala Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly premiered at Milan's La Scala on February 17, 1904, and was initially met with a hostile reception. Puccini revised the work, and the reworked version went on to become one of the most performed operas in the world. It tells the tragic story of a Japanese woman abandoned by an American naval officer.