schubert
you say:
"Puccini wasn't picking on Americans,. He was a liberal who was against the Italian Fighting for colonies in North Africa .If he used an Italian Navy man he wanted to the Opera would be banned ."
If Puccini has used an Italian Navy man, he would not have been composing an opera about Japan.
It was USA Commodore Perry that forcibly "opened" Japan in 1854. Italy had nothing to do with it.
And what makes you think that Puccini "wanted" to use an Italian Navy man?
you say:
"Puccini wasn't picking on Americans,. He was a liberal who was against the Italian Fighting for colonies in North Africa .If he used an Italian Navy man he wanted to the Opera would be banned ."
If Puccini has used an Italian Navy man, he would not have been composing an opera about Japan.
It was USA Commodore Perry that forcibly "opened" Japan in 1854. Italy had nothing to do with it.
And what makes you think that Puccini "wanted" to use an Italian Navy man?