{"id":1154,"date":"2011-02-08T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T05:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2011-01-31T23:23:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T04:23:35","slug":"tuesday-tunes-madame-butterfly-puccini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/tuesday-tunes-madame-butterfly-puccini\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tunes &#8211; Madame Butterfly &#8211; Puccini"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-951\" title=\"Ryan Fleacrest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Fleacrest\" width=\"192\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s one more major insect order left to cover on this first round of Tuesday Tunes, and there&#8217;s no lack of songs to choose from! The butterflies are certainly the most easily recognized insects, and probably the most loved overall by the public, leading to a lot of artists aiming to capitalize on their popularity. Watch for quite a number of lepidopteran features in the future!<\/p>\n<p>Tonight we start with the most recognized piece from Puccini&#8217;s 1904 opera Madame Butterfly, <em>Un Bel D\u00ec Vedremo. <\/em>Although this piece is not explicitly entomological, it&#8217;s sung by the title character of the opera, and that&#8217;s close enough!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ofaoLKPz7c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: the opening notes of this aria send our cat into hiding. Apparently she&#8217;s not one for Puccini! Fleacrest, out!<\/p>\n<p>This song is available on iTunes &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/id4783893?i=4783872&#038;uo=4\" target=\"itunes_store\">Madama Butterfly: &#8220;Un bel d\u00ec vedremo&#8221; &#8211; The World of Puccini<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s one more major insect order left to cover on this first round of Tuesday Tunes, and there&#8217;s no lack of songs to choose from! The butterflies are certainly the most easily recognized insects, and probably the most loved overall by the public, leading to a lot of artists aiming to capitalize on their popularity. <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/tuesday-tunes-madame-butterfly-puccini\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,23,16,199],"tags":[229,65,230],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-insects","category-pop-culture","category-tuesday-tunes","tag-butterfly","tag-lepidoptera","tag-opera","category-151-id","category-23-id","category-16-id","category-199-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}