意大利作曲家普契尼的歌剧《蝴蝶夫人》,对我国音乐爱好者来说都非常熟悉。中央歌剧院从20世纪60年代起就演出过由戈宝权、郑兴丽等译配的中文版。几十年来,人们一直以为此剧的剧作者是意大利人骆·伊利卡(Illica Luigi,1857-1919)和朱·贾科萨(Giccoso Giuseppe,1847-1906),剧的内容是讲日本姑娘巧巧桑在爱情上受到美国海军上尉平克尔顿欺骗的不幸遭遇。实际上,它是美国作家 Italian composer Puccini’s opera “Madame Butterfly”, for our music lovers are very familiar with. Since the 1960s, the Central Opera House has performed Chinese versions translated and matched by Ge Bao Quan and Zheng Xing Li. It has been assumed for decades that the dramatists of this play are Illicium Luigi (1857-1919) and Giccoso Giuseppe (1847-1906), which are about Japanese girls Qiao Sang in love by the United States Naval Captain Frankston cheated misfortune encounter. In fact, it is an American writer