to his Madame Butterfly and to Turandot, and motifs derived from American folk traditions and na-tive American Indian rhythms for La Fanciulla del West. When he wrote Madame Butterfly Puccini was forty-six years old. He was to describe his “Japanese” opera as “the most heartfelt and emotionally evocative opera I have ever devised ». Andrea Bocelli born in 1958 in Lajatico, Tuscany, Italy is an Italian tenor, multi-instrumentalist and classical crossover artist. Born with poor eyesight, he became.