Un bel dì vedremo on McLaren's album of the same year, "Fans". "Un bel dì vedremo" occurs in Act II in both the original and the revised version. The Italian text here below is taken from the very first version of the libretto (17 February 1904) as reconstructed by Julian Smith. Un bel dì vedremo "" ("One fine day we'll see") is a soprano aria from the opera "Madama Butterfly" (1904) by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is sung by Cio-Cio San/Madama Butterfly (on stage with Suzuki), as she imagines the return of her absent love, Pinkerton.
Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù Xyndas, for example, wrote the Greek opera "O ypopsifios" ("The Parliamentary Candidate") which became the first opera composed on an exclusively Greek libretto and was performed at San Giacomo in 1867. The oral tradition held that operatic performers who found success at the theater were distinguished with the accolade "applaudito in Corfú" ("applauded in Corfu") as a tribute to the discriminating musical taste of the island audience. The theatre was replaced by the Municipal Theatre of Corfu in 1902. The Municipal Theatre and its historical archives, many of which belonged to Teatro di San Giacomo, were destroyed during a Luftwaffe