Question

A soprano traveling on the steamboat El Dorado transforms into one of these animals at the end of a 1996 opera in which the journalist Rosalba repeatedly loses her notebook. For 10 points each:
[10e] An operatic character named after what sort of animal stabs herself after singing the aria “Con onor muore”? The soprano aria “Un bel dì, vedremo” appears in that Puccini opera, whose title character is named for this animal.
ANSWER: butterfly [accept Madama Butterfly or Cio-Cio San]
[10h] In a magical realist opera by Daniel Catán, this soprano transforms into a butterfly to reunite with her lover Cristóbal. This character titles that opera, which was the first in Spanish to be commissioned by an American company.
ANSWER: Florencia [or Florencia en el Amazonas; accept Florencia in the Amazon]
[10m] On several occasions, Puccini’s score for Madama Butterfly represents Cio-Cio San’s husband with a motif based on this song.
ANSWER: “The Star-Spangled Banner” [accept “To Anacreon in Heaven” or “The Anacreontic Song”; prompt on American national anthem or national anthem of the US] (The song was not yet the US’s national anthem at the time Puccini composed the opera.)
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