¹ Giger, Andreas, ‘French Influences’, in The Cambridge Companion to Verdi, ed. L., Scott Balthazar (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 111–38Google Scholar.

² Walton, Benjamin, ‘Rossini and France’, in The Cambridge Companion to Rossini, ed. Senici, Emmanuele (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 25–36Google Scholar, and Walton, Benjamin, Rossini in Restoration Paris: The Sound of Modern Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)Google Scholar.

³ Sarah Hibberd's ongoing Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship project, ‘Italianità Abroad: The Puritani Quartet in London and Paris, 1835–1843’, promises many future avenues for this topic.

⁴ The influence of the Italians on the development of French opera is undoubtable, dating from the days of Lully. Alexandre Dratwicki's liner notes chart the influence of Verdi upon grand opera, as well as that of verismo on French experimentations with naturalisme (6). For a fuller discussion of the cross-fertilisation of French and Italian opera, see Lacombe, Hervé, The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001)Google Scholar.

⁵ Recent recordings supported by the Palazzetto Bru Zane include Véronique Gens, Paysage, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, dir. Hervé Niquet. Alpha Records, 2024 and Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Les Nuits d'été – Shéhérazade – Mélodies persanes, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, dir. Kazuki Yamada. Erato, 2023. The Palazzetto Bru Zane also coordinates its own label, which has made its name for its premiere recordings – most recently Saint-Saëns's Déjanire, Bru Zane Label: ‘French Opera’ Series vol. 39, 2024.

⁶ Danielle Thien has expanded on some of these questions about Madama Butterfly in translation in ‘The Migration of Madama Butterfly: Otherness in Creation and Translation of Puccini's Opera’, in Opera in Translation: Unity and Diversity, ed. Adriana Şerban and Kelly Kar Yue Chan (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020): 95–115.

⁷ Budden, Julian, The Operas of Verdi, Volume 1: From Oberto to Rigoletto (London: Cassell, 1984): 342Google Scholar.

⁸ Verdi to Countess Appiani, 22 September 1847. Quoted in Budden, The Operas of Verdi, 1:343.

⁹ Amica premiered to great acclaim at the Opéra de Monte Carlo on 16 March 1905, followed swiftly by its Italian premiere (with a translated libretto) on 13 May 1905.